Can you make a Stockless shotgun?

Can you make a pistol grip shotgun? Yes.

Do you want to make a pistol grip shotgun with only the rear grip? NO. Unless you're a fan of dental bills.

If you really want to go this route there's only one feasible way of doing it.
Go buy a Remington 870 or a Mossberg 500 (Think security models NOT sport models here) and get a grip kit from a company called Tac-Star. They'll have rear AND forend grips. These are the only two kinds of shotguns they make them for and it's usually for 12 gauge.

I used a Mossy 500 when I did one. You can shoot these but aiming is slower because you have to hold the thing like you were shooting a bow. Your left arm has to be extended with elbow LOCKED unless recoil to the chops sounds amusing to you. I've shot 3 inch, buckshot and slugs through it but locking that arm is a MUST!

The only feasible way of hip shooting one with any accuracy whatsoever would be to add a laser sight. If you're familiar with an old Rutger Hauer movie from the 80's called, Wanted: Dead or Alive, this is the kind of set-up he had. Although his was shorter than you could get away with legally.

So yeah, all those things implemented, it can be done.
Would it be practical? That's for you to decide.
 
Almost all semiauto shotgun designs have a bolt return spring that extends into the buttstock past the pistol grip. Make sure of what you're doing before you take a hacksaw to one...

lpl/nc (sawed-off 28ga. 1100???)
 
As advised before,,,, put a laser on your shotty if you go to a pistol grip only. I have an acquaintance that thought he could hold a pistol grip 870 up high enough to sight down the barrel and hit the target.

The short version of a long drawn out series of procedures was this; he retired after they failed to fix his mouth and jaw so he could return to duty.
 
If you are just going for the "Look" I have seen many of the flip up stocks that would allow you to do what you want yet would keep the shotgun somewhat usable. Try shooting half a box of target loads without using the stock(hip shooting) see how your wrists like it, most people seem to stop shooting like this after about five shots, maybe you will have better luck.
 
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