Michael Tinker Pearce
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I was given the barrel and receiver of a 16-guage Long Tom in very rough shape. The barrel had been crudely hacked off at 18-3/8 inches, the breech was a little off-face and the trigger-return spring needed to be repaired.
I cleaned it up and fixed some things and decided to do something fun with it. I made a short stock and long forearm from Maple, and since I decided to retain the forearm with a screw through a barrel-band. Once I got started the barrel-band turned into a muzzle-device of sorts just because it was neat. I added a leather recoil pad over a Pachmayr recoil pad; this thing is light enough that I though recoil might be a real issue. I had to fabricate a new trigger-guard out of some 1/8" mild steel.
The result is compact and handy, and the recoil with slugs (all I have fired through it so far) isn't bad at all. I'm going to add a bead front sight but it's basically finished. I'll test it with some shot loads soon, but with the cylinder-bore I don't expect much. Funnily the AK-47-inspired muzzle device actually does direct the muzzle-blast upwards a bit. It's kind of a weird gun, and damned if I know what it's for but I dig it.
I cleaned it up and fixed some things and decided to do something fun with it. I made a short stock and long forearm from Maple, and since I decided to retain the forearm with a screw through a barrel-band. Once I got started the barrel-band turned into a muzzle-device of sorts just because it was neat. I added a leather recoil pad over a Pachmayr recoil pad; this thing is light enough that I though recoil might be a real issue. I had to fabricate a new trigger-guard out of some 1/8" mild steel.
The result is compact and handy, and the recoil with slugs (all I have fired through it so far) isn't bad at all. I'm going to add a bead front sight but it's basically finished. I'll test it with some shot loads soon, but with the cylinder-bore I don't expect much. Funnily the AK-47-inspired muzzle device actually does direct the muzzle-blast upwards a bit. It's kind of a weird gun, and damned if I know what it's for but I dig it.
Neato!
