It's not Christmas without a shotgun...

[Michael Tinker Pearce]

Linda has gotten in the habit of buying me shotguns for Christmas. Uh... Darn? This year we found a 12 guage JC Higgins Model 20 in excellent condition... for $100. We bought it as my Christmas present, with the intent of shortening it into a slug/self-defense shotgun.

It is so nice that I was reluctant to mess with it, but it's not like I don't have enough full-length shotguns, so off I went. After shortening the barrel to 18-1/2 inches, squaring and recrowning it I fabricated a front sight out of 1/2" mild steel.

I used a powerful magnet to hold the sight in place while soldering it to the barrel-

Cleaned it up and blued it- here's the result below. Next is the rear sight...

 

[entropy]

Looks nice-better than Remington's slug sight.

 

[Duster340]

Outstanding!

 

[lemaymiami]

Outstanding craftsmanship...

 

[Sistema1927]

You'll shoot your eye out.

 

[badkarmamib]

Are you thinking peep or notch for the rear sight? Mounting on the receiver or the barrel?

 

[swampcrawler]

I love this guys posts. Can't wait to see how it ends up!!

 

[Michael Tinker Pearce]

Are you thinking peep or notch for the rear sight? Mounting on the receiver or the barrel?

Going to do a bridge attached to the barrel with a drift-adjustable v-notch rear.

 

[bannockburn]

Tinker

Nice bit of repurposing a vintage shotgun. Looks great; like that new front sight too!

 

[entropy]

Going to do a bridge attached to the barrel with a drift-adjustable v-notch rear.

I triple dog dare ya!