OLD WEST: Modifying Shotguns
 

Hi Guys,
Anyone know how long it takes a trained gunsmith to modify a standard 12 guage shotgun into a sawed off shotgun or even a whippet configuration shotgun? I've a player who is asking. I figure if I can get a handle on how long it takes to do the conversion, I can give a ball park estimate on how much the gunsmith might charge for the service.

Thanks,
Hal

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To saw off a barrel? Ten minutes with a hacksaw. Probably less.

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Don't for get to file the insides of the barrel as well to clear any obstructions left over from the hacksaw.

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To keep with the flavor of the setting it probably wouldn't even require a trained gunsmith just a hacksaw and you might be able to borrow one for free.

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If you let the blacksmith stay with the metal from the sawn off part, he will probably do it for free.

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So, at a rough guess, sawing off the barrels won't take much time, cutting the stock down to size so that it is more of a whippet style shotgun wouldn't take an awful long time either - call it a half a day maybe?

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It won't take a gunsmith that long, but he may well charge as if it did. There are rules on the effects (but not the prices) of this in Tactical Shooting. Anybody with a couple of points in an applicable Armoury speciality can do it themselves with no real problems.

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half hour tops. A whippet shotgun would take at most 1h.

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Yep, this. This one of the simplest of all gun modification and little or no skill required. There isn't really anything that can go wrong on a crit fail if you unloaded the gun first..

A person doing an neat job will file around te cut on the barrel to smooth that and sandpaper the cut stock to get a smooth grip but a slob can probably get away without any of this.

You don't need a trained Blacksmith to do any of this but you might need his tools.

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If a player wanted to do that, without armory, i would let it with a guns+4 based on IQ. Or armory +8 if he have it and really wants to roll