Shotgun Barrel Bending to Change POI

[rbertalotto]

Do you have a shotgun that simply doesn't shoot to point of aim. I did! and I needed to correct it.

"Shotgun Barrel Bending to Change Point Of Impact"

A full report is now posted on my web site:

http://www.rvbprecision.com

or directly here:

http://rvbprecision.com/shooting/shotgun-barrel-bending-change-point-impact.html

Hope you enjoy it!

 

[jds holler]

Thanks for that, and you have a very nice web site. I'll be poking around there. jd

 

[Judd]

Did you know the barrel was bent? Why didn't you opt for stock changes rather than bending a barrel?

 

[Dusty Stevens]

Man that scares me to think of bending a good barrel!!

 

[savagedasher]

Looks like a great product
I have one that shoots low right
I corrected the sight picture but it’s yard depending

 

[swd]

I watched Giocomo the famous Perrazi gunsmith bend a Perazzi barrel at the state shoot one time. He folded a red rag nicely, put it on a bench and the holding the barrel by the breech end gave it a few good HARD thwaps then looked down the barrel and gave it few more good HARD thwaps on the bench. Pretty entertaining considering the barrel alone was worth about $3K.

 

[dolek]

Glad you fixed that barrel,thanks for sharing the procedure . Simple rig that gets the job done just fine.

 

[JRS]

I read his article about the 911 rear wheel spacers Evidently, he doesn't know much about the geometry of the 911.

 

[KMart]

Bending a barrel to make it shoot where you look, is something that was done somewhat regularly prior to about 1980....before the days of adjustable stocks and adjustable ribs. I had a BT99 that was bent in the crook of a tree. It was that or you kept trading guns (expensive) until you found one that satisfied you.
Some of the down sides of the bending process are:
Putting a kink in the rib or
Separating the rib from the barrel somewhere along the line.
Twisting the barrel a little and making it shoot left or right a little.
After talking to several shooters that did this regularly, most of them swore that at about 5,000 rounds, the barrel would start to shoot itself straight again.

 

[1lessdog]

I have straightened lots of shotgun barrels. One was so bad I packed it full of sand and and bent it back straight. I then drilled the sand out and looked threw the barrel to see if it had a shadow inside it.A couple of wraps on a tire and it was good as new.

 

[johnfred1965]

My brother's solution to a shotgun shooting off was to swing the barrel across a 50 lb sack of grain. It was a couple of whacks then test, until it shot where he wanted it.

 

[Richard Coody]

and i always thought poi adjustments in shotguns were made by fitting the stock to the shooter.

learn something.new every day.

 

[jdh47]

Skeet shooters were fond of just beating the barrel against the low house wall until satisfied they'd taught it a good lesson from missing.

 

[jds holler]

and i always thought poi adjustments in shotguns were made by fitting the stock to the shooter.

learn something.new every day.

I doubt that I'm the only one who has a fundamental problem with adjusting my scattergun's POI with stock fit, hold, stance, etc. I understand the concept, and that we're not supposed to "aim" a shotgun, but by God I want my shotgun to shoot where it's supposed to even if I'm taken out of the equation. If bending the barrel is required to do this, -- I'm in.

I've got a problem with a pretty nice SxS twenty gauge that I own. At a test distance of say thirty feet, "aiming" carefully at a pattern board; one barrel prints just where it's sposed to, the other about eight inches low and to one side.(can't remember which) It drives me nuts to consider how far off it would print at thirty yards. jd

 

[LarryDScott]

I doubt that I'm the only one who has a fundamental problem with adjusting my scattergun's POI with stock fit, hold, stance, etc. I understand the concept, and that we're not supposed to "aim" a shotgun, but by God I want my shotgun to shoot where it's supposed to even if I'm taken out of the equation. If bending the barrel is required to do this, -- I'm in.

I've got a problem with a pretty nice SxS twenty gauge that I own. At a test distance of say thirty feet, "aiming" carefully at a pattern board; one barrel prints just where it's sposed to, the other about eight inches low and to one side.(can't remember which) It drives me nuts to consider how far off it would print at thirty yards. jd

To fix that error, the barrels will have to be separated and resoldered. I would suspect not a cheap fix. LDS

 

[Trevor60]

different method shotgun bending tool bending method is 1:17

Trevor

 

[jds holler]

To fix that error, the barrels will have to be separated and resoldered. I would suspect not a cheap fix. LDS

Yeah, I suspect the same. Shotgun is a Ithica/SKB, one of the "Made in Japan" guns. Pretty nice rig, except for it's so --- glossy. Kind of a seventies thing I guess. I should at least drop a note to Briley and see what I'm looking at to fix. jd

 

[LarryDScott]

If it has screw in chokes, the problem barrel could be
improperly threaded, pushing the shot pattern. LDS

 

[Dusty Stevens]

I have an skb o/u that shoots both barrels where i think the shot should hit. Mine is a good one for sure

 

[shortgrass]

To fix that error, the barrels will have to be separated and resoldered. I would suspect not a cheap fix. LDS

Now that's an understatement! Regulating doubles is about one of those "lost arts" outside of the tool box, but of a very few. Are the ribs tight? Unless choke tubes have been installed aftermarket, SKB may be able to help. That'd be my first call. As for 'bending' the barrel to adjust POI, I have seen jigs made like rbertalottos' for many years. I think Brownells used to catalog one.