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General discussion => Gun Building => Topic started by: jmf on March 02, 2024, 05:23:39 AM

Title: Barrel ID
Post by: jmf on March 02, 2024, 05:23:39 AM

Does somebody know what make this barrel is? Its .54 with a 1:66 twist and 34” long. 15/16 straight with square bottom rifling. The GR 8909 is the only marking on the barrel.

(https://i.ibb.co/6v6yGFv/image.jpg) (https://ibb.co/PTBrJgT)

(https://i.ibb.co/tQFjGqd/image.jpg) (https://ibb.co/QptSgP5)

(https://i.ibb.co/5X3fzgL/image.jpg) (https://ibb.co/dsvz3wD)

Title: Re: Barrel ID
Post by: t.caster on March 02, 2024, 05:01:34 PM

I'd say it's a Green River barrel. I've used them in the previous century and they are very good shooters! I think they were made in the west somewhere like Montana. I had a .62 cal. on my first Jaeger rifle that I killed a 450lb. black bear and many, many whitetails with!

Title: Re: Barrel ID
Post by: rich pierce on March 02, 2024, 06:03:39 PM

I dunno. My .45 GRRW barrel has narrow lands and wide grooves. From 1977.

Title: Re: Barrel ID
Post by: okawbow on March 02, 2024, 06:04:59 PM

GRRW Green River rifle works. Excellent barrels.

Title: Re: Barrel ID
Post by: jmf on March 02, 2024, 09:43:48 PM

Thank you Sirs, Green River was what I was told, but I couldn’t find anything online to substantiate that, so figured someone here would know.

Title: Re: Barrel ID
Post by: Daryl on March 03, 2024, 12:02:57 AM

My GRRW barrel. Seems to me, it was originally stamped GRRW on the breech-end.

(https://i.ibb.co/StKLf2c/Muzzle-Crown-14-bore-closeup.jpg) (https://ibb.co/QP65DZk)

Title: Re: Barrel ID
Post by: jmf on March 04, 2024, 06:41:50 AM

I did some more scratching around this afternoon on the grrw website and came across some good info. This wasn’t a grrw barrel, but a green river plumb center barrel which was made by the green river company which ended up with the barrel machinery following grrw’s bankruptcy in 1980. 

(https://i.ibb.co/bspQKMj/IMG-1964.jpg) (https://ibb.co/n7h6LNq)

(https://i.ibb.co/M8223fc/IMG-1963.jpg) (https://ibb.co/s5mmMCK)

(https://i.ibb.co/8PqW6Kd/IMG-1965.jpg) (https://ibb.co/P1K7wm9)

(https://i.ibb.co/18YYSd7/IMG-1966.jpg) (https://ibb.co/dGsshLj)