Shotgun dent removal ...

[72sofsme]

Hello, ISO gunsmith who can fix or more specifically remove a dent from a shotgun barrel, ensure safe and reliable operation.

Edit: Looking in the Hurlburt Field area ...

 

[Duckyou]

Well - you can steam out a dent in a stock - but that would not really work on a barrel…

 

[SAWMAN]

Well - -> this is a really good one.
Is it and older Damascus bbl or newer "normal" gun steel bbl ??
Sorry sir ... I do not know the answer to this but would direct you to a member of our forum.
JJ (ONESHOT) will know. ( Pls contact him by phone )
My "guess". It cannot effectively and reasonably be done. ---- SAWMAN

 

[FLT]

There is a tool made just to remove dents from shotgun barrels.

 

[SAWMAN]

Weak spots.
Inconsistancies.
Deepely scored inner bbl.
Final polish.
Pattern change
????? --- SAWMAN

 

[oneshot]

First thing , what kind of barrel , what is it on a D/B--single--does the barrel remove from the Rec. where is the dent. on the barrel. is it a vent rib is a older Dismas. barrel. JUst This like asking can you fix my car. with no information.

 

[72sofsme]

Single barrel break action, Apex (Iver Johnson, Champion but was a store brand) ...
modern steel, bead sight
dent is about 3/4 way down towards muzzle, its visible inside and out but unsure of how much (0.025 of an inch, but no idea)

The tool is probably 3 times more expensive than the shotgun is by its self so ... cost prohibitive.

 

[Duckyou]

Hang it on the wall and tell people it is the rare and expensive DB version.

 

[FrankT]

yeah if an inexpensive gun keep it for parts

 

[FLT]

It’s been 20 or more years ago, but I had walkers in Alabama take a dent out of a expensive double barrel. They specialized in shot gun repair. I believe they were/are in Selma Alabama.

Walker” Arms Co., Inc One of the Southeast's largest parts distributors 499 County Road 820 Selma, Alabama 36701

 

[SAWMAN]

Another option could be - -> take it to JJ and have hime chop it and face it,just inside the dent.
Use it for HD or truck gun. ---- SAWMAN

 

[MauserLarry]

I worked with a guy that got mud in his barrel and got one of those pipe cutters that plumbers use and cut the bad spot off. Got some of that touch up bluing and when he finished you couldn’t tell it. Don’t know how it affected his pattern but he kept using it.

 

[Longtooth]

I worked with a guy that got mud in his barrel and got one of those pipe cutters that plumbers use and cut the bad spot off. Got some of that touch up bluing and when he finished you couldn’t tell it. Don’t know how it affected his pattern but he kept using it.

He cut his barrel down over getting some mud on a gun?!?

 

[MauserLarry]

He cut his barrel down over getting some mud on a gun?!?

He fired it with mud in the barrel and it bulged out. Probably not a smart thing to do.

 

[Duckyou]

An angle grinder does a good job of chopping a barrel - just do not let it get too hot and keep it over 18" (18.5" to be safe)

 

[72sofsme]

It is one of the nicer examples of this type of shotgun that I've seen ... would like to just fix it.

 

[mac the knife]

I had the same problem a few years ago. I dropped my winchester double barrel and dented both barrels. Made me sick. !
I called everywhere and asked every gun smith and shop i could. It turned out that the tools to fix it are so expensive and seldom called for, that a gunsmith isn’t going to buy them and let them lay around. I finally gave up and sold the gun as is. As a parts gun.

If you were to find a smith with the tools it would probably cost you 10 times what your gun is worth. Lots of labor.

 

[72sofsme]

This dent came with the shotgun when I got it ... but, I know that as a kid while squirel hunting with my dad a long long time ago, leaned his Stevens side-by-side against the back of the station wagon and it slid and hit the trailer hitch. He was upset with me but he got it fixed.

 

[J pace]

Is this gun dented in are bulged out

 

[.22 cents]

i have a dent fixer