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Offline Ezra

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Got a barrel, need suggestions
« on: May 02, 2012, 08:17:01 PM »
Guys,

I've got a nice Burton barrel, 44", 1 1/16" straight in .47 caliber.  Besides a chunk style rifle, what could I credibly use this barrel for?  Thanks.


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Re: Got a barrel, need suggestions
« Reply #1 on: May 02, 2012, 08:32:22 PM »
 ;D Weight lifting..... ;D pretty heavy to balance I reckon.... So an Appalachian Mtn Rifle? Something like the "Hackberry"??

Something fun I hope.
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Re: Got a barrel, need suggestions
« Reply #2 on: May 02, 2012, 09:17:29 PM »
What did you have in mind when you bought it?
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Re: Got a barrel, need suggestions
« Reply #3 on: May 02, 2012, 09:21:55 PM »
Quote from: Ezra on May 02, 2012, 08:17:01 PM
Guys,

I've got a nice Burton barrel, 44", 1 1/16" straight in .47 caliber.  Besides a chunk style rifle, what could I credibly use this barrel for?  Thanks.


Ez

Make a 36"-38" barrel for a Hawken and use the other 6-8" for a Hawken pistol.

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Re: Got a barrel, need suggestions
« Reply #4 on: May 02, 2012, 09:26:39 PM »
1.  Cut 8" off it and make a matched pistol/rifle combo in Hawken or Plains style.
2.  It's a chunk barrel.....chunk it into the Classified forum and see if anyone bites.
3.  Use it as a gate post.
4.  Why did you buy it?   ;)
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Re: Got a barrel, need suggestions
« Reply #5 on: May 02, 2012, 09:33:16 PM »
I had in mind a chunk type rifle.  Just wanted some other ideas.


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Re: Got a barrel, need suggestions
« Reply #6 on: May 02, 2012, 11:52:51 PM »
Swamp it with a file. ;D
 A Connistoga Bear rifle from Leman comes to mind.
 Or one of those Norwegien backwoods Snaplocks without a butt, just a cheek rest, like they must have had on the Delaware when New Sweden brought all of those Ostrabothnian Finns to PA in the 1600s.
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Re: Got a barrel, need suggestions
« Reply #7 on: May 03, 2012, 12:25:53 AM »
1. Get it bored out and rifled into a larger caliber.
2. Send it back and get it swamped.
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Re: Got a barrel, need suggestions
« Reply #8 on: May 03, 2012, 02:05:39 AM »
Tough Crowd ;D

Two underhammer buggy rifles.,,Seriously
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Re: Got a barrel, need suggestions
« Reply #9 on: May 03, 2012, 02:14:38 AM »
Is .20" about the minimum thickness for a breech wall?  Assume 12L14 steel for a rifled barrel.  Possibly a smoothie.


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Re: Got a barrel, need suggestions
« Reply #10 on: May 03, 2012, 04:31:09 AM »
...or trade it back to Charlie for a 44", "B" weight .45. Big enough for Mulies,whities, Shiras moose, you know-the little ones. A great trail rifle! School?...a Southern Mtn.,Virginy,,a nw Tenn,a Beck,Haines,Lanc,York...pretty much any kind you want. Kibler or Pratt cobble up some real nice gonnes! Geez,that reminds me, I gotta chat with Ian soon. He knows an up and coming builder whose work is dazzling! Good luck Ez.
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Re: Got a barrel, need suggestions
« Reply #11 on: May 03, 2012, 05:37:56 AM »
Just to let you know it shoots really good so I wouldn't mess with the inside at all!
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