THinking about committing a sin

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I have a BT99 that has metal in GOOD shape and the stock is all beat up.
It needs to be refinished.
I want a light single shot for hunting squirrel and maybe rabbit/pheasant.

I am considering having the BT99 cut to 18.5 and hard chromed.

Well, it just crossed my mind.
I bought it really cheap, in fact someone has offered me double what I paid for it. I think i may just resell it, but I got this bright idea also.
 
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OMG....that could get you banned, shot, drawn and quartered, boiled in oil, and that's just for starters......

seriously, if you want a short shotgun, buy some cheap Mossberg 500 / Remington 870 and go from there....if necessary, sell the BT to make it happen
 
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The hard chroming will cost as much or more than a new Mossberg 500. A new stock can be had for the BT99 cheap. The 500 you can do anything with.:cool:
 
I already have a 500.

I think I will sell it.

I keep waiting for one of the old Iver johnson stainless steel deerslayes to come up on gunbroker for this purpose, but none ever do...
 
If I was going to end up with exactly what I wanted I think i would be likely to spend the money, but I think the BT99 will still be pretty heavy once the barrel is cut down. The action itself is a beast.
 
The BT99 I had kicked like a mule, plus they are made to shoot high for trap. Stocks can be refinished for reasonable prices & they sell pretty easily at a trapshoot.
 
ONe Oz. says: "OMG....that could get you banned, shot, drawn and quartered, boiled in oil, and that's just for starters......"

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.......Then you would be tarred and feathered, then put in stocks in the town square.

Oh, yes, and that would be a sin.
 
It's sacrilege, but chopped older guns usually make up for it in cool factor. Resell to someone who wants to keep it original. I wouldn't chop it, but I'd be considering it just like you. Look for the Ivers & Johnson or an old JC Higgins pump for that purpose, even though you want a single shot. Pre H&R New England Firearms maybe? Probably going to laugh me out of the thread, but my first gun was a 20 Gauge HR Pardner single shot in '94 or '95. I shot COUNTLESS rounds and killed all kinds of beasties with it without a malfunction that wasn't a result of improper maintenance and was still taking it out shooting when I sold it 6 months ago to a new owner who'll probably get countless more out of it. The patterns were pretty quality too! Look for a used one and modify from there.
 
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On a whim you'd destroy a great commercial competition gun so you can have a "neat" rabbit gun...So you'd take a $1,500 to $2,000 gun that you got cheap and can sell for twice what you paid for it and make it a near copy of a H&R single shot $100 shotgun...Is that what you're thinking? Just want to make sure I got it correctly!

I'll give you an H&R Deluxe Single shot Shotgun for it right now, sight unseen...Then again, maybe not...If it is so badly beaten up that the only hope for it is a "wascally wabbit gun" I'd ask to see pictures first...Hell, with it, I can sand the stock and sell that, re-blue the barrel and action and sell those! OK, deals back on and I'll even include an 18½" barrel with it...

You don't want it, sell it and buy 10 single shot shotguns with the money, one in every available barrel length...You don't want it, trade it in for something that you do want--it would make for a substantial down payment on a Perazzi or Krieghoff or Blaser or etc...

You don't want it, donate it to a charity auction for a tax credit...

You don't want it, there are many alternatives available to you but please, whatever you do, don't destroy a true classic trap gun...Paint it pink and give it to your daughter/wife/sister/mistress/gay friend/aunt/cousin but don't destroy it...
 
I like my H&R. It is the right weight and even for their best single shot 12 ga I was only set back $140. When I go hunting it is usually for multiple days in a location which is damp. The finish on it does not appear very corrosion resistant, and by that I mean I kept it on the top bunk of my old bed at my parents for a month after I graduated from college with my 22 bolt gun and pistol and it got a spot of VERY light discoloration/rust on it while the other two were fine. A simple wipe with an oil rag removed it, but I lost my confidence in the finish. I was considering using gun kote on it, but that would not protect the bore or the internal mechanisms. It may in all reality be a beater/truck gun, but I don't want it to look like one. I don't think hard chroming over the original finish is even an option.
 
Like others said, when they gagged ...

we'd have to send somebody over there to beat you with the barrel piece you cut off ....... come on man ....you can't be serious ?

Sell it or donate it to a club or something - and take a tax write off... The BT-99 is a very good competition Trap gun and a lot of clubs would be happy to have it as a "loaner" gun for new shooters.
 
I was pondering cutting the fenders off of my Corvette so I can run some huge off-road tires. Perhaps that can wait until after I trim the barrels and stocks from some of my comp guns.
Beam me up, Scotty.
;)
 
Can't say the idea sound good to me. I would never consider doing anything like that to my BT-99. Being boiled in oil for doing such a thing is not even sufficient punishment - skinned alive, maybe.

The thought of being out in the 'field' hunting with a shotgun that does not have a safety doesn't appeal to me either. Supposed you could carry it 'open' and close it to take a shot but that sound rather cumbersome....
 
JWT - good thought - on the safety issue, or lack of it ....

I have a BT-99 and a BT-100 ....and it didn't occur to me to mention that .... nice catch ..
 
Oh, oh....here we go now...picking on Trap Shooters and Corvettes......

( I met a young lady - named Tiffany ?? from Scarsdale, NY - many yrs ago, that really liked Corvettes, and guys that drove them, and she had a great pair of --------) ... so I borrowed a Corvette for the weekend from a buddy ....../and we had a great weekend. It worked out ok, but I didn't want either one of them hanging around too long......, all her brains were in her --------, and it just wasn't worth it ..... kind of like a Corvette / and while she was a nice girl.....as I recall the Corvette was a 72 convertible - and it was a pig .... (but I was a young cadet/not an officer or a gentleman yet, and hormonal ...).

I don't know how that relates to Trap Shooters / but its the only good memory I have of Corvettes ....

On the H&R - I would recommend a "rattle can" of Krylon - your preference on color .....
 
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