A short sheetmetal screw with a rounded head could make for an improvised bead sight. There’s no sighting system, but the forward pistol grip has a Weaver-style base so you can mount a red dot or visible laser. A “safety” is included in the form of a clip that inserts between the firing pin and primer, attached to a short piece of cord so you don’t lose it. When finished, you have basically a two-piece pipe shotgun composed of a chambered, spring-loaded barrel, a homemade receiver containing a fixed firing pin, a homemade stock, and pistol grips. This acts as your receiver, for lack of a better term, and the firing pin should be able to pass completely through it.Ībove: For less than $35 in pipe fittings, you can complete the Pop-A 410 kit and have a single-shot shotgun. Some builders have used JB Weld for a more permanent fix, but that might be excessive.Ī crucial piece of this assembly is the ½-inch tee piece. Once you have an idea on how everything lines up, you can make it semi-permanent by using plumbers’ tape, Loctite, or another adhesive.
I threaded as far as I could, backed off, and repeated in order to grasp more threads to make it sturdy and straight. Lucas Oil Gun Grease and a small pipe wrench in conjunction with a vise got everything properly into position. They might line up perfectly while only grasping two or three threads, but then would be totally out of alignment when tightened all the way down. One of the trickier things to get right was ensuring that the angled pipe connectors aligned properly. Perhaps jam nipples are a colloquialism in certain parts of the country or an older plumbing term, but I couldn’t find them under that name in stores near me.Īfter a quick trip to Home Depot and $32 later, I had everything I needed to put the Pop-A 410 together.Īssembly took about 15 minutes, if that long.
I found them under a variety of names such as zero nipples and flush nipples. These are short nipples that are completely threaded. The only parts that were somewhat difficult to find were the so-called jam nipples. After about a week, it arrived.Ĭompletion of the kit requires the following ½-inch pipe parts: A few days later, they advised that the manufacturer would ship out the missing components directly. If they were unsuccessful, they’d have me return the kit in exchange for a new one. When compiling the items needed to finish it up, I went to double check on the website what a “jam nipple” was and realized the firing pin wasn’t included in the shipment.īud-K’s customer service desk began looking for extras in their warehouse. This wasn’t a big deal, as the kit is straightforward with a video on the company’s website. Bud-K packaged it well enough, but after opening it up I realized there was no instruction sheet. The pipe shotgun package arrived via FedEx Smart Solutions, meaning that FedEx did all the heavy lifting getting it to within 20 miles of me and transferring final delivery to my local post office.
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