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I spun it on the lathe for a damaged choke on a 16gs SxS. Measured the bore, subtracted .050" and made the tool. Quite easy if you have a lathe.

"spun it on the lathe for a damaged choke on a 16gs SxS. Measured the bore, subtracted .050" and made the tool. Quite easy if you have a lathe."

And a milling machine to get the slant perfect.

For professionals that do this all the time, that is the best way, but for hobbyists like myself I do not want to spend $400+ for one.
My way works great.

That one was cut off on the mill but I have built them using a hacksaw as well. The slant does not need to be perfect, just smooth. There is more than one way to get the job done properly a man much wiser than myself once told me. Food for thought.

I once acquired a gun in that condition, the dent being on the outside if you looked head on at the muzzles. Having a strong bond with the muzzleloaders, an inventive DIY group if ever there was one, I bought a section of steel bar and filed it down to a nominal muzzle ID. Then I filed a slight flat along one side of the bar, just enough for the bar to slip into the muzzle past the dent. Gently rotating the bar back and forth ironed out the dent Gun looks fine and shoots to POA. I would not want to do it on a very big dent.

Whereas a tapered mandrel works on everything all the time. Tomato / Potato.

Are we talking about dents in the middle of steel here, or an out-of-round muzzle. I had thought it was the latter.