I have a 1" 40 cal barrel an would like to take some weight off the barrel

[sonny]

I would like to use my 40 cal barrel but it is 1" an heavyyyyyyy... I would like an ultimate off hand woods walking rifle. I need to find somebody to reduce the thickness of this barrel. Is there anybody who can remove the thickness correctly-evenly on this barrel?.............sonny

[T*O*F]

Sell it and buy one that ain't heavy.  It'll probably cost less in the long run.

[smylee grouch]

How long is it ? May be it can be shortend  on the back end if its too long.

[Stoner creek]

Got a good sharp file and several hours?
Contact one of the barrel makers out there and see if they will plane it down to what you want. It may be more money wise to buy yourself another barrel. 13/16” .40 cal straight is easy and cheap.

[WadePatton]

Sound advice from Dave there.

Charlie Burton has the tool, but I don't know if he'd fool with somebody else's barrel-for more than one reason. It'd likely cost you half the price of a new swamped bbl and take as long too.

Good luck.  I have read of fellows hand-swamping one- once.  I have not heard of anyone hand-swamping a second one... 

[Ky-Flinter]

I used a friend's mill to swamp one once.  I don't know that I would do that again, but by hand with a file.... no way.

-Ron

[sqrldog]

Bobby Hoyt will reduce it to the dimensions you want cheaper than you can purchase a new barrel. Give him a call.

[Bob McBride]

He can also bore it out to a .50 or so pretty cheaply. It’ll be a lot lighter....

[alacran]

If you make a full stock, you can have the three bottom flats fluted starting 1 inch forward of the breech and stopping i/4 inch from the muzzle. Or you could have it turned octagon to round.

[sonny]

What the heck was I thinking about when I originally ordered the barrel from H&H. It would make a dandy crowbar! He he he. Do they still make Vincent rifle kits? Before I correct the barrel I need to know what size barrels would work in a kit. Orrrr, find a gun builder who majors in vincent to make me a dandy correct target killer.... sonny

[Hungry Horse]

 Making it octagon to round would be easier. Pretty much anybody with a proper lathe, and machine skills could pull that off.

  Hungry Horse

[smokinbuck]

Putting your crowbar into a Vincent won't create anything worth having. I have a 1/2stock with a 1"X34" .40 barrel. It's like lifting a barbell. I'm going to turn it round, with a wedding band starting at the for end nose cap. The round will be +/- 15" X 3/4".  Have done this before and even in .40 caliber is very manageable.

[Longknife]

Get some bar bells and start working out!! You will learn to manage that huge chunk of iron and be able to win about any match you enter!!!! We all strive to make these new m-loaders light weight but the old guns were NOT light!!! I have an original Ohio rifle that has a 36 3/4 barrel .980 to .920 in 40 cal, rebored from .36 cal and it weighs 9lb 8 oz. Its not a light weight but when I was younger and could shoot it off hand (and see the sights) It was a tack driver!!!!,,,Ed

[Hungry Horse]

 I’d buy a new barrel for the Vincent, and make a chunk gun out of the .40 H&H.

  Hungry Horse