OK, don't flame me for letting the voices in my head talk out loud.

I'm thinking a smooth bore barrel for one of my glocks would be slick for shooting snakes off my mower with shot shells.  Yes, my rifled barrel works, but...  well...  I want to do it better/farther etc.

Not knowing how or at what point in the manufacturing process custom barrels are rifled, I wonder if this is possible.  Are the barrels one big tube that is cut to length then rifled or is it a big rifled tube that is cut to length etc?  Maybe this would be no big deal to order...

Thanks in advance for entertaining my crazy notions.   dg.

Quoted: Are the barrels one big tube that is cut to length then rifled or is it a big rifled tube that is cut to length etc?

Yeah!  They just cut a length, rifle it, and crazy glue a chamber with lug on the end!

Exactly how I pictured it.

Bet they use epoxy though.

And just for clarification, when I say that I use this weapon to shoot snakes off my mower, I mean that the snakes are usually on the ground.  I'm the one on the mower.

In addition, I have no neighbors, but the UPS man is somewhat apprehensive of the mad man on the John Deere with bib overalls  with the Austrian hardware in a shoulder rig.   dg.

you're probably not gonna find a smooth bore pistol barrel. using one would turn your G22 into a C3 weapon known as an AOW (any other weapon) which requires a tax stamp like MG's but it is only $5 instead of $200.

HTH,
LM

Luvman-

Never even considered that there may be laws regarding that.  I suppose somewhere the definition of a pistol includes that it has rifled barrel.   ?

If that is the case it isn't worth fooling around with.

Thanks, appreciate it.   dg.

This got brought up at some point in another ammo forum, and i think the verdict was that soft lead shot, wrapped in soft plastic, will DEFINITELY not harm a steel bore, or the rifling therein. especially so hardy a bore as that which resides in a block.

Quoted: you're probably not gonna find a smooth bore pistol barrel. using one would turn your G22 into a C3 weapon known as an AOW (any other weapon) which requires a tax stamp like MG's but it is only $5 instead of $200. HTH, LM

the transfer is only 5$ but I beileve its still a 200 tax to manufacture it.

Quoted: Quoted: Are the barrels one big tube that is cut to length then rifled or is it a big rifled tube that is cut to length etc?   Yeah!  They just cut a length, rifle it, and crazy glue a chamber with lug on the end!

Quoted: Exactly how I pictured it. Bet they use epoxy though.