Contemplating buying a Zeus to modify into a shotgun. Is possible to bore at the rifles barrel to make it smooth? Any ideas on the project would help tremendously. Thanks
- The AGN App is ready! Search "Airgun Nation" in your App store. To compliment this new tech we've assigned the "Threads" Feed & "Dark" Mode. To revert back click HERE.
.72 Zeus to shoot bird shot
- Thread starter PolarisRngr
- Start date
You can buy a 12 gauge smooth bore barrel from ER Shaw in bridgeville pa. Have it threaded and milled and you would be set. I worked used to work there. I know they for sure make 12 gauge shotgun blanks.
Upvote 0
Making the bore very smooth is very important in shotgun barrels. After drilling the blanks they had a setup to spin the barrel and lap the bore with different grit sandpaper until it looked like a mirror. Worst job in factory but nessary.
Upvote 0
That would be a cool project. Do you have an idea for loading and maintaining the shot in a wad in the chamber?
Upvote 0
I would suspect you could use regular 12 GA wad with cardboard cup on end to keep shot from falling out. I thread the barrel for chokes and you have it made...The Zeus would probably make a better shot shooter. Would be fun to shoot trap with
Upvote 0
Shot shells here: https://texomaprecisionpellet.com/product-category/728/
Macabespeed (sp?) has a video testing them. Said they group best out of the longer barrel. The 16” was a huge spread.
Macabespeed (sp?) has a video testing them. Said they group best out of the longer barrel. The 16” was a huge spread.
Upvote 0
Ma and speed is just shooting birdshot in a rifled barrel. Shot performs terrible in rifled barrels.. There's been conversations on umarex hammer to shot shell that looked very good. Not very hard to get a smooth bore 12 gauge blank in America.. Umarex was supposed to come out with primal 20 gauge for $500.00 or.something. not nearly as powerful as Zeus platform. You could hook the Zeus shotgun up to big SCBA tank tethered and shoot trap. what.a way to get people.into airgun s. The Zeus should be able to shoot full 1 once PR 1and1\4ounce loads pretty stout.
what.a way to get people.into airgun s. The Zeus should be able to shoot full 1 once PR 1and1\4ounce loads pretty stout.Upvote 0
AS far as I have read you could be the 1st one on your block to see what the scatter ( um, pattern hopefully?) looks like with these precious jewels :
https://texomaprecisionpellet.com/product/lot-of-40-zeus-72-600gr-shotshells-with-8-lead-shot/
John
https://texomaprecisionpellet.com/product/lot-of-40-zeus-72-600gr-shotshells-with-8-lead-shot/
John
Upvote 0
I think.it has a.barrel nut. So yes. Chicken thief has a thread on his Zeus . With his barrel off.
Upvote 0
I just bought a 16" zeus 72 and had a texoma smooth bore I just finished putting on it. Haven't shot it yet, just making sure it holds air and it's all put together correctly before I try it. I have a few different chokes to try out also.
the texoma barrel fit like a glove, no info on how it performs yet though.
the texoma barrel fit like a glove, no info on how it performs yet though.
Upvote 0
I'm considering doing exactly what you did with a 72 Zeus and getting a smooth barrel for shot.
Do you mind filling us in on the cost of the barrel from Texoma and have you got a chance to run some rounds through it? If so how did it go?
Upvote 0
After 2 shots the zeus broke. There is a plastic oval chamber under the bolt where the air is fed through. It was completely destroyed and tore the oring in half. I am in the process of ordering another one. The pin that holds in the oval was bent in half. I ordered some 12L14 2mm steel rod with a psi strength of 115,000 to make a stronger pin, but if this oval piece keeps disintegrating it won't matter.
I'm thinking about trying to find someone with a CNC machine to make me this oval piece out of aluminum but it would probably cost as much as the gun.
I'm thinking about trying to find someone with a CNC machine to make me this oval piece out of aluminum but it would probably cost as much as the gun.
Upvote 0
Seems like something the person putting it together should have done...
Upvote 0
I have to say in terms of reliability if you're planning on hunting maybe bring a different gun. This is just my personal experience with the gun, other people may have better luck.
Upvote 0
I got 4140 and 17-4ph also. Would you recommend something else or will one of these work? I don't know what the stock pin is made of but it bent in 2.
Upvote 0
A2, M2, 01, and W1 I can get in the correct diameter for the pin. Or I can just straighten the bent one, AEA says they don't have the pin for replacement.
Upvote 0