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Originally Posted by Harry Gietler
I have spent over 45 years bending shotgun barrels for people. It is very easy,but you have to go easy, you don't want to ''Kink'' them. I have seen barrels get bend by guys sitting on them while the gun was in a case on the back seat of a car. It only takes a few degrees, they don't look like a ''Crossbow''. Most of the bending was for slug shooting for deer hunting. The hardest to bend were Ithaca 20in. slug barrels.
Harry
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I have seen it done too, Harry. But, there's a difference in making a gun shoot to where you want it to by bending a barrel, as opposed to finding out why it's shooting that way in the first place.
Bending a barrel makes one shoot where you want it to
at a specific range. Less than that distance and it's off, and more than that distance and it's off in the other direction.
My opinion is that, if possible, it's better to correct the issue on the back end of the gun than on the front end. Read Oswald's book and you might agree. Or not.