Perhaps. but that's not what I'm asking. Are bent barrels common? I've heard of it, but never seen it and I expected it to be more subtle than this. And wouldn't this exacerbate my problem.

Here it is not just pattern, but point of aim with a hastily mounted gun. Apparently rather than making the stock dimensions work to get a "natural point of aim" where the barrels would hit, here the barrels have been bent to make them hit where the factory stock wants to point them. This seems much simpler, but I don't know much about it. Are there some articles one could point to on the net that explain this well?

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