doublegunshop.com - home Forums General Discussion DoubleGun BBS @ doublegunshop.com What's the worst that could happen?

It doesn't have to be expensive. But it better be 100% reliable.

If I am ever in a situation where I had to use a home-defense gun, the cost of losing the gun to confiscation would be the last thing I would be worried about.

I am now putting a leather pad on the gun to display my work to people who want to see my leather covered buttpads. My business has really begun to pick up the past few weeks. So that is my first intention. Second, I have never fired it because of the thin barrels and I probably never should have bought it to begin with because it is a low grade gun that would cost a lot more to rebarrel than it is worth. But I did not realize that when I bought it several years ago. I only paid $400.00 for the gun so now, I will probably either sell it as a parts gun or, as I said, sell it to a cowboy shooter and let them deal with sleeving it if they want to spend the money. I really don't. But the curiousity of firing it still lingered. I have already told people at my club, who I shoot with that I had a Parker with cut barrels that were probably too thin to shoot. So, it isn't like I was going to dump them on someone and let them get hurt. So, thanks for your opinions. I really do appreciate them.

About 30 years ago I knew a guy that spent 11 months and 29 days in jail for shooting a fleeing home intruder in the buttocks with a sawed off 12ga....'claimed the guy he shot had to have a rubber covered butt.

Ps...Caint wAit for the pics Jammy.

Jimmy;
Do you have the means of taking accurate wall measurements down the length of the bbl. "IF" it indeed has adequate wall thicknesss over the chamber & for at least 12" or beyond with the thiness being confined to the last 2"-3" inches near the muzzle, I would simply shoot it, especially if it is closer to the .020 than the .010. Also if you could mic the od prior to firing & then again after you could pick up if it began to swell, which would be more likely to happen than a split.
Many shotgun bbls actually enlarge as they near choke area with a thinner wall from around 18" to a little behind the choke area.
Many who are screaming with hysreria would likely be surprised at what some of the bbls measured around the 18" mark on guns they have shot for years.

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Jimmy,
Would you please post photos of your leather pad work?

Purty please...

Maybe he would if you posted a picture of that feller with the rubber covered hiney.

Ken's home defense weapon is a Diamond Grade Lindner Daly.

I don't know exactly what is being said here in the past few posts. I think Dave has deleted something and I have Jobby on my ignore list so I can't see anything he says...... So, I will answer the best that I can........ No, 2-piper, I only used a mike and measured the end of the barrels, so I can't accurately measure beyond that........ On The Wings Of A Dove, I can't really post pictures of my leather pads because my computer won't post them any more. For some reason, it won't pick up my pictures from my digital camera like it used to....... I did finish putting a leather pad on it last night and I took it to the shooting range today. None of the guys there thought the barrels were anything to worry about, so a few of us took it out and shot a box of shells through it from the #7 station at the skeet range. It took us a while to figure out that you have to shoot about a foot and a half under the target to break the birds from that station, but after that we ran a box through it and it shot fine. And, it looks pretty nice with the new leather covered pad. So, it should make a nice home defense gun if someone doesn't make me a good offer for it. So, thanks for the input from you guys. I really appreciate it. And, good luck.