To bad you chopped it off. They can fix that on a shot gun barrel.
Yep.
My dad bent the barrel on my Ithaca .410 single shot while using it to shoot squirrels. He was riding on his golf cart and was pulling under his garage and the barrel was sticking through the arm rest and got hung on the support post of the garage opening and bent around in a sweeping 30° left turn.
I looked online for a replacement barrel and the ones I found were upwards of $200 or more because the gun was years out of production.
We took it a mile down the road to a family friend who was a gunsmith to see if anything could be done, or if he had a line on a cheaper barrel. He said to leave it with him and he'd see what he could do. A few days later he called and said come get it so my dad went down and got it.
He brought it over and I saw it and thought he'd replaced the barrel, so I asked what it cost and dad said $40. I said that was too cheap for a new barrel and dad said that was the old barrel and he straightened it in a jig he had.
I was amazed that a bend like that could be straightened out but he did it.