looking for a 18" barrel for a winchester sxp

[rudy_c]

Hi Calgunners
I bought a winchester sxp black shadow with a 28" barrel as my first gun to go bird hunting and skeet shooting with.
Now I am trying to find an 18" barrel to also use the gun as a home defense shotgun but have had no luck finding one.
Has anyone else been able to find either a factory replacement 18" barrel or even an after market 18" barrel?
any information that may point me in the right direction would be greatly appreciated.

thank you

[Steve_In_29]

Have you tried contacting Winchester's parts department.

I had to do that with Mossberg to get the 18.5" barrel for my wife's .410.

[rudy_c]

no i have not tried contacting Winchester directly. i have looked on their website but have only seen that the 26",28", and slug barrels are for sale?

[Steve_In_29]

no i have not tried contacting Winchester directly. i have looked on their website but have only seen that the 26",28", and slug barrels are for sale?

You need to contact their Repair/Parts Dept not their Sales Dept. There was no where on Mossberg's site where the 18.5" .410 barrel was shown as available. However I knew they make shotguns with it so I called Parts and requested the information. In my case I knew I needed to also install a matching mag tube of the appropriate length, which their Parts people provided the info on as well.

Find a model on Winchester's site that has the barrel configuration you want and when you contact the Parts Dept to buy the barrel, reference that model.

[Pbl600]

I would also try to contact winchester directly I bought a 18 inch barrel for my remington 870 from remington I ended up paying less for it than buying it from any other website

[tkpow]

how did u resolve this?...

I have the same situation- I got the Black Shadow (w/ 28" barrel) and figured I could just swap with an 18" (purchased from Corson's). But, the barrel bracket is positioned differently.

Did you also swap out the mag tube? or another solution? thx

[W.R.Buchanan]

Have you looked on Ebay? Chances are you will have to cut a longer barrel down to get what you want.

Randy

[JagerDog]

Have you looked on Ebay? Chances are you will have to cut a longer barrel down to get what you want.

Randy

I was gonna say...pretty easy to cut down a longer barrel.

[tkpow]

thx

Have you looked on Ebay? Chances are you will have to cut a longer barrel down to get what you want.

Randy

was hoping to keep both the long and short barrels for different purposes and the long barrel has a sight rail running the length that further complicates cutting it down. There is apparently a specially made part # that mates with the shorter mag tube of the Black Shadow.

[Nvberinger]

Barrelexchange.com

But you may not find 18 inch barrels. It's the times we live in. Sold out.
Buy bigger and have it cut.

[W.R.Buchanan]

there are three barrels for your gun on Ebay right now ranging form $130-$300

Not a real popular gun so you will probably have to buy one and cut it, or have it cut.

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=m570.l1313&_nkw=Winchester+SXP+barrels&_sacat=0

All of these have vent ribs on them so You'd cut the barrel to 18"+ "to the end of the next portion of the rib forward that is soldered to the barrel."

You don't cut it in the open part of the rib obviously and you don't want to cut the rib shorter than the barrel. (There is a guy on Ebay who is doing that to Mossberg and Remington barrels to make them into HD barrels and they look stupid! Don't be that guy.

Randy