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Offline a4beltfed2000

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NEF shotgun rebored?
« on: June 19, 2009, 01:54:39 AM »
I have a spare .410 barrel, I also have a hankering for a 32 ga shotgun. I found the brass for them, and was wondering if someone has ever rebored a shotgun barrel. I would love to have a SB1 in 32 ga.....thoughts:!
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Re: NEF shotgun rebored?
« Reply #1 on: June 19, 2009, 03:41:02 AM »
I have a American Arms 32 ga.  O/U and when I bought it around 1993 you could buy Fiocchi 2 1/2 shells by the case for about $ 5 a box.  I bought several cases and have molstly shot skeet and a few doves with them.  I made a die set to fit my MEC reloader and have loaded my own with card and fiber wads shooting 5/8 oz. of shot.
Shotgun barrels are reamed to the finished bore size, I think if you could find someone to ream your 410 to 1/2"  ( .500 ) bore size and bore or ream the chamber and forcing cone , it could be done.
To pay a gunsmith to do it ? I think it would cost alot, but if you could find someone with a lathe and the ability to make there own tooling it might be a fun project.
My O/U doesnt get much use anymore and I dont know if it has become anymore valuable over the past 16 years, so I have thought someday of converting it to a double rifle as I have already built one on a SxS .
There are alot of people who dont know there are 14 ga.s  24 ga.s  32 ga.s and a lot of oddballs out there , but myself being a wildcatter and one who is ALWAYS thinking of guns and " what if " I had to pick it up ( the 32 ga. ) when I saw they were available.        Jedman
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Re: NEF shotgun rebored?
« Reply #2 on: June 19, 2009, 11:22:12 AM »
Your cheapest way to do it would be to find one of 32ga H&R dart guns and have the chamber rebored with the forcing cone the 32's show up now and again on Gunbroker and even in our classified ads. kurt
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