Hey all I just joined this forum today. I have a benelli nova pump and a stoeger m3000. Both are used for hunting. But now I want to make my nova a hd gun. Ibknow there's lots of threads about cutting your barrel on here. So I wont ask repetitive questions about it. What I am wondering is if I did cut it down from 26 to 18.5 would that affect the integrity of the barrel with certian shells? For example 00 buck or 1 oz slugs? Main reason I ask is because in the manual it says you shouldn't shoot steel shot through anything bigger then modified choke and a cut barrel is of course bigger then even o cylinder. Thanks