So I’ve always wanted a cut down AOW/SBS double barreled shotgun in the Mad Max style. Not for any reason besides fun, anti-Fudd, shits and giggles. I had a perfect donor candidate -20ga Stevens 311 with a damaged barrel but let it get away. Now I have two possibilities in my possession. One is also a Stevens 311, undamaged. The other is a 20s-30s vintage Plymouth (Crescent?) that was my Grandfather’s and was used to put food on the table during the depression.

GBer values the Stevens in the $300-350 range and the Plymouth apparently $100-200.

I’m trying to decide which one to stamp and cut down. The Plymouth has sentimental value to me, but to no one else in my family including, at least as of now, my kids. I won’t hang it in a wall or anything, so it would likely just stay in the safe until my kids go through my estate, hopefully years hence. The Stevens has no sentimental value but is clearly a nicer, higher quality gun that would be good for skeet or hunting. Honestly, if I cut the Plymouth, I might sell the Stevens.

Having this kind of weapon is nothing but a fetish, but I’ve been wanting it for several decades now. It isn’t a passing desire.

WWTLGCer’sD?

I say cut the non-heirloom

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Move to a state without NFA items and granpa's shotgun has to stay.

I'ma gonna agree with senorgrand on this one. Cut the non-heirloom.

Good point about potentially having to lose the gun if I moved to a non-NFA state. I don’t anticipate that, but Climate concerns may modify my current plans.

Older Stevens shotguns aren’t particularly rare either. Just hate to cut something that is useable in current form.