If I cut down modified 26 inch barrel to 18 inches will it still be modified choke? it looks the the taper ends at about ten inches.

No it will be cylinder choke. And if you don't measure correctly, you'll end up with an illegal sawed-off shotgun.

An extra barrel is probably cheaper/the same as the work to cut down the barrel - unless the barrel is damaged.
I'd go the new/extra barrel route.

Please ! If you cut the barrel short contact me and I will pay postage for the piece of cut off barrel ! My E-Mail is listed on my profile .

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Originally posted by Concho42:
Please ! If you cut the barrel short contact me and I will pay postage for the piece of cut off barrel ! My E-Mail is listed on my profile .

What the heck do you do with that?

I make tools from the ends of cut off barrels

If you do cut the barrel off try for 18 1/2 to 18 3/4 inches. The shorter barrel will be a cylinder bore, no choke. Most chokes are just in the last 1/2 of the barrel.

Make maximum use of the barrel, install choke tubes.

Rich

I have a H&R 20 ga single shot that I cut the barrel to 18.5". I used a big pipe cutter to cut it off, took about 2 min. The pipe cutter pushed a small amount of metal in as it cut. I was going to ream it out, but decided to shoot it first. The pattern turned out to be about modified when compared to another shotgun on paper at 20 yds. If you do go this route, make sure it is smooth. You could use a piece of sand paper on a wooden dowel to smooth the inside of the barrel.

If it's not a cheap single shot, then maybe look for another barrel on Gunbroker. They can be fairly cheap sometimes.