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BobbyT · May 17, 2009, 09:31 PM

Sorry if it's been covered, but I haven't come across it here. 16" requirement for rifles, 18" for smoothbores. So a 16" rifled shotgun should be fine right? No need to go the SBS route?

That would make things a little less unwieldy for a HD shotgun. Obviously buck wouldn't pattern as well, but if I remember correctly the Box o Truth experiments shots stayed within torso size at 12 yards, so at 10 or less it should do fine.

May 17, 2009, 09:31 PM	#1
BobbyT Senior Member Join Date: May 3, 2009 Posts: 266	16" shotgun + rifled barrel = no SBS issues? Sorry if it's been covered, but I haven't come across it here. 16" requirement for rifles, 18" for smoothbores. So a 16" rifled shotgun should be fine right? No need to go the SBS route? That would make things a little less unwieldy for a HD shotgun. Obviously buck wouldn't pattern as well, but if I remember correctly the Box o Truth experiments shots stayed within torso size at 12 yards, so at 10 or less it should do fine.