I painted the white grip spacer, but jwrites is hooking me up with a plastic piece. If I had access to some serious woodworking tools, I'd like to thin out the grip and make it more movie accurate.
Max Max airsoft shotgun mods
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Looks fantastic! I notice you did the underside of the receiver. Did you have to remove it, or the trigger guard? I just left mine black...for now. Also, you may have convinced me to cut the rubber barrel tips.
I painted the white grip spacer, but jwrites is hooking me up with a plastic piece. If I had access to some serious woodworking tools, I'd like to thin out the grip and make it more movie accurate.
I painted the white grip spacer, but jwrites is hooking me up with a plastic piece. If I had access to some serious woodworking tools, I'd like to thin out the grip and make it more movie accurate.
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Re: Max Max airsoft shotgun mods
Yep, I took the whole works apart... and put it back togeather... several times. 
Kept messing up the reassembly by having one piece or another out of place.
In the photo of my top strap, the safety lever looks silver, but it's actually just worn. All the high points have had the paint removed.
It's interesting figuring out the trigger group placement after you have it all apart, but i'm pretty pleased with how it turned out in the end. I wish the barrels were about 3/4" shorter, but that would involve additional mods I'm not willing to attempt right now.
If you decide to cut your rubber bushings, just go slow so you don't remove too much material. There's a groove in the center that the set screws go into to lock the rubber pieces in place. You don't want to get too close to that.
Kept messing up the reassembly by having one piece or another out of place. In the photo of my top strap, the safety lever looks silver, but it's actually just worn. All the high points have had the paint removed.
It's interesting figuring out the trigger group placement after you have it all apart, but i'm pretty pleased with how it turned out in the end. I wish the barrels were about 3/4" shorter, but that would involve additional mods I'm not willing to attempt right now.
If you decide to cut your rubber bushings, just go slow so you don't remove too much material. There's a groove in the center that the set screws go into to lock the rubber pieces in place. You don't want to get too close to that.
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I got this hundred-plus year old DB side by side from my grandpa. If there were a legal way to do it, it could easily be made into a decent prop.
What it would look like trimmed up.
What it would look like trimmed up.
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I'm not sure how I feel about chopping up a hundred year old family heirloom. But if you did, you'd have a close-ish Thunderdome replica.
I had a similar item years ago that was missing all the external parts (hammers, locking lever and stock) and I ended up giving it to a buddy. Then a few years later I got into movie prop building. If only I knew then what I know now...
One thing you'd need to do to make it 'legal' and truly deactivated would be to remove the firing pins that the hammers strike, driving them into the shotgun shells, and then weld the holes closed so they couldn't be easily reactivated.
Even then it might not fall into the 'non-gun' restrictions.
Russ
I had a similar item years ago that was missing all the external parts (hammers, locking lever and stock) and I ended up giving it to a buddy. Then a few years later I got into movie prop building. If only I knew then what I know now...
One thing you'd need to do to make it 'legal' and truly deactivated would be to remove the firing pins that the hammers strike, driving them into the shotgun shells, and then weld the holes closed so they couldn't be easily reactivated.
Even then it might not fall into the 'non-gun' restrictions.
Russ
draknoir2 wrote:I got this hundred-plus year old DB side by side from my grandpa. If there were a legal way to do it, it could easily be made into a decent prop.
What it would look like trimmed up.
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Re: Max Max airsoft shotgun mods
No way would I cut on it. It's been handed down from my great-grandpa to grandpa to dad to me. What I had planned to do was make a nice glass and cherry shadowbox in which to display it properly. If I were to use it to make a prop I would make molds of it and cast a replica.Rook3 wrote:I'm not sure how I feel about chopping up a hundred year old family heirloom. But if you did, you'd have a close-ish Thunderdome replica.
Great patina... even the 70 year old repair on the stock looks cool... all history and character.
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If it is legal to own in your state, it's just a matter of filing a Form 1 with the BATFE(and the related finger print cards, citizenship declaration, senior law enforcement officer signature, 2 photographs, and a $200 check) and in a matter of 2-3 months the ATF will send you back an approved form that says you can build a Short-Barreled Shotgun. A SBS is classified as a shotgun with barrel length of less then 18" and a overall length of less then 26". Only muzzle-loading shottys are exempt from this. I don't believe that the fact that it is over 100 years old will make a difference or will deactivating it. The deactivating kinda falls into a grey area and the penalties are pretty stiff if it goes the wrong way. If you want a sawed-off, do it legally. It's not worth the fines and jail time and pleading ignorance is no excuse. You're in Illinois if I'm not mistaken, and that state is not very friendly towards firearms in general, much less any NFA stuff like this. But you never know until you ask.
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Re: Max Max airsoft shotgun mods
Thanks. I don't have any intention of making it into a sawed off... just thought it would look cool as one. Couldn't bring myself to cut on it anyway. You're right... the laws here regarding deactivated weapons are nebulous at best, and the penalties for ownership of short barreled shotguns are severe [that's the charge they used to go after Randy Weaver].
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Update
I got the plastic piece from jwrites and installed it. I traced the outline of the bottom (black) cap and then sanded it close with my Dremel. I screwed it down and then filed it to fit by hand. It's not pro gunsmith quality, but it looks pretty good. Thanks, J!
Next I'll trim down the rubber barrel tips.
Next I'll trim down the rubber barrel tips.
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