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Offline Ezra

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Barrel sleeve question
« on: July 10, 2012, 06:18:51 AM »
Can a .62 caliber smoothbore barrel be re-sleeved to .58 caliber smoothbore?  If this is possible, who does such things?  Thanks guys.


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Offline Acer Saccharum

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Re: Barrel sleeve question
« Reply #1 on: July 10, 2012, 02:38:32 PM »
Bobby Hoyt, again, does the best lining job I know of. He makes his own rifled liners, in the style appropriate to the gun. A wizard.

Robert Hoyt
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Re: Barrel sleeve question
« Reply #2 on: July 10, 2012, 05:00:17 PM »
There isn't a great deal of difference between a .63 and .58.  How much material can be removed from the .62, to make the .58's liner thicker? If too thin, it might not remain perfectly smooth inside, due to obturation with pressure on firing.

I'd think it would be safer to line with a .54 smooth liner, but that might make for quite a heavy gun.


B. Hoyte would indeed be the best person to ask.
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Offline James Wilson Everett

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Re: Barrel sleeve question
« Reply #3 on: July 10, 2012, 06:02:28 PM »
You might try to get tubing 5/8 OD by 0.020 wall and install it with long set epoxy.  It is not really difficult - if the tube OD will slide into the bore ID.  Check out the thread "rifle barrel liner".  Perhaps the best person to do this is you!  I have even done this type of liner with stainless steel.

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