It started out as an old 30" barrel Baikal single shot with a super tight choke that I bought just for muzzleloading.
Well I felt I could use it for a lot more then that do I started thinking about making one of those silly do all YouTube survival guns.
I already have a couple of 12ga to 20ga adapters, the black powder adapter and a 12ga to 22lr adapter. But I'm going to get a 20ga to 22lr adapter so I can store it in the 20ga adapter.
But anyway I 1st figured out what barrel length I wanted, I thought about everything from 18.5" to 24" but settled on 20" in the end due mostly to love of coach guns.
So I went about by 1st marking the 20" Mark, then measured 10mm back and marked there.
I then put a loop of string around the front bead and feed it through the barrel and closed the action, I moved it a few times till it lined up with the center.
I witness marked it and then pre drilled it 1.5mm, then drilled it 2.5mm and taped the hole by hand M3x0.5 and tested to bead fit.
I removed the bead, and then scored the barrel at the 20" mark with a pipe cutter about 1/3 The way through then clamped it to the work bench.
I then sawed it off with the hacksaw, I dressed it and chamfer it with a file.
Then touched the bright steel with some cold blue and put the brass bead in with Loctite 620.
I then decided it might kick a bit so I fitted a limbsaver pad from a T3 that I had for some reason, filled down some extra wood and gave it some truoil after a little sanding smooth.
I'm going to try it out tomorrow with the 22lr insert, bird shot and then muzzle load some .69 round balls.
If nothing else it's the gun I can test shoot various home rolled slugs in and not mind if it blows up.
But it's going to be a fun little thing to play with around camp, and at 4.8lbs according to my luggage scale it's definitely going to be an eye opener.
