shotgun barrel pinning
10-30-2007, 07:13 AM
#1
Nontypical Buck
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Illinois
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shotgun barrel pinning
Has anyone done this? I'm thinking with retirement 6 months away I will have extra time on my hands. I have the machinery and knowledgeto do the work, working around machinery for the past 30 years. Just never done anything like this to my shotgun. Pinning a barrel is drillng, tapping, and attachingthe reciever and barrel together. Makes the barrel ridgid to the reciever increasing acuracy. So, anyone done this? Paid a gunsmith to do it? Did it help?
Sorry I should have stated this is for improving your pattern shooting slugs. I have a rifled cantilever barrel.
Sorry I should have stated this is for improving your pattern shooting slugs. I have a rifled cantilever barrel.
10-30-2007, 11:06 AM
#2
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: central Ky
Posts: 2,867
RE: shotgun barrel pinning
As a gunsmith,I honestly think the results DON'T outweigh the trouble. The only time it would help is if your barrel has a lot of "slop" or excessive movement with everything tightened.
10-30-2007, 12:26 PM
#3
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Feb 2003
Posts: 10,679
RE: shotgun barrel pinning
As another gunsmith I wouldn't do it to any of my shotguns.
I really don't know what the point would be unless you wanted to delegate it is a slug gun only and wanted to wring out every bit of accuracy that might be available.
Unless you are shooting slugs, shotguns were never meant to be "accurate".
I really don't know what the point would be unless you wanted to delegate it is a slug gun only and wanted to wring out every bit of accuracy that might be available.
Unless you are shooting slugs, shotguns were never meant to be "accurate".
