Builder, my first 'real' shotgun after the .410 stage was a 20ga Remington model 31 my mother had fallen into a gulley with while bird hunting. She bent the barrel sideways, either right or left, I can't remember. I learned to shoot that gun by holding off to compensate for the bend. Finally, I took it to a country gunsmith who went out to his front yard to a forked tree and bent the barrel back straight. I never could shoot it as well after he fixed it, because it was shooting straight...Geo