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    Default Easy improvised shotgun magazine plug

    I wanted to try hunting with my Charles Daly Honcho, but the magazine cap isn't notched for removal of the magazine spring. So, I couldn't insert a normal, plastic, commercial magazine plug. I've seen some folks use wooden dowels inserted, but I didn't want to have to "fish around" to get it out. Then my Muse shat on my head.

    Use a knitting needle.

    It's the right diameter. It's rigid. It can be cut to length. And the cap can be left on to prevent it from slipping too deeply into the mag tube, getting lost. So I cut it to length, filed a round end on it a it works damned nicely!
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    Default Re: Easy improvised shotgun magazine plug

    Quote Originally Posted by Sandcut View Post
    I wanted to try hunting with my Charles Daly Honcho, but the magazine cap isn't notched for removal of the magazine spring. So, I couldn't insert a normal, plastic, commercial magazine plug. I've seen some folks use wooden dowels inserted, but I didn't want to have to "fish around" to get it out. Then my Muse shat on my head.

    Use a knitting needle.

    It's the right diameter. It's rigid. It can be cut to length. And the cap can be left on to prevent it from slipping too deeply into the mag tube, getting lost. So I cut it to length, filed a round end on it a it works damned nicely!
    genius, impressive.
    my mossberg had a cheap wood stick, that stick is somewhere... forget how it had to be shaken out or even how to reinstall it.
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    Default Re: Easy improvised shotgun magazine plug

    That doesn't appear to be a PGC approved device.
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    all you get is ridicule, laughter,
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    Default Re: Easy improvised shotgun magazine plug

    Quote Originally Posted by streaker69 View Post
    That doesn't appear to be a PGC approved device.
    Why not? Shotgun. Not shooting >#4 shot. Plugged to accept no more than 3 rounds between chamber and magazine. Nowhere does Title 34 require a buttstock or barrel/overall length.
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    Default Re: Easy improvised shotgun magazine plug

    Quote Originally Posted by Sandcut View Post
    Why not? Shotgun. Not shooting >#4 shot. Plugged to accept no more than 3 rounds between chamber and magazine. Nowhere does Title 34 require a buttstock or barrel/overall length.
    Because it's not a permanent change, you could pull that out in the field and fire more shots than you're allowed. Those things need to be permanent, at least that's what I hear about modifying semi-auto to bolt action.
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    Default Re: Easy improvised shotgun magazine plug

    Quote Originally Posted by streaker69 View Post
    Because it's not a permanent change, you could pull that out in the field and fire more shots than you're allowed. Those things need to be permanent, at least that's what I hear about modifying semi-auto to bolt action.
    Incorrect. They don't have to be permanent. They have to require "disassembly", which this does. In order to remove it, the gun must be unloaded and the magazine cap removed.
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    Default Re: Easy improvised shotgun magazine plug

    Quote Originally Posted by Sandcut View Post
    Incorrect. They don't have to be permanent. They have to require "disassembly", which this does. In order to remove it, the gun must be unloaded and the magazine cap removed.
    You know I'm just messing with you, right?
    Rules are written in the stone,
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    Default Re: Easy improvised shotgun magazine plug

    Quote Originally Posted by Sandcut View Post
    Incorrect. They don't have to be permanent. They have to require "disassembly", which this does. In order to remove it, the gun must be unloaded and the magazine cap removed.
    "disassembly"


    and "cali clips"
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zVenCG3eX8

    (i know streaker is kidding)
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    Default Re: Easy improvised shotgun magazine plug

    I always cut a chunk out of a plastic clothes hanger

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    Default Re: Easy improvised shotgun magazine plug

    Quote Originally Posted by streaker69 View Post
    You know I'm just messing with you, right?
    I apparently missed that.
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