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Offline Longknife

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Barrel blanks??
« on: May 14, 2009, 05:32:07 PM »
I'm looking for a source of unrifled barrels, I would like to try rifling my own, Any ideas???? Thanks, Ed
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Re: Barrel blanks??
« Reply #1 on: May 14, 2009, 07:52:02 PM »
Buy a smooth bore from a barrel maker.
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Re: Barrel blanks??
« Reply #2 on: May 14, 2009, 08:45:50 PM »
Since you previously asked about boring and reaming your own, consider the following sources:

Truck axles, forged pry bars, seamless tubing, 1137 or 4140 bar stock.
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Re: Barrel blanks??
« Reply #3 on: May 14, 2009, 09:14:06 PM »
It's really fun boring out truck axels.
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Offline Jim Chambers

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Re: Barrel blanks??
« Reply #4 on: May 14, 2009, 09:34:23 PM »
Rice Barrels always provides the barrel blanks that Barbie has hand rifled at Friendship each year on the back porch of Gunmaker's Hall.
« Last Edit: May 14, 2009, 09:34:55 PM by Jim Chambers »
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Re: Barrel blanks??
« Reply #5 on: May 14, 2009, 09:44:22 PM »
I have a 15/16 .45 cal smooth in 41L40 made by Harry Kesselring, New York State, in the '80's. If you can use it, then let us Dicker (if not Dickert).
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Re: Barrel blanks??
« Reply #6 on: May 14, 2009, 11:37:25 PM »
I don't want to "make"barrels,  I can't afford the machinery to do that, and I can't imagine trying to bore out a solid bar or truck axle by hand either!!!!!! I want to re-bore existing shot out barrels, or rifle bored and reamed barrels, purchased from a supplier. No one lists smooth barrels on the net and a few inquireries have gone unanswered. To order a custom barrel un- rifled cost as much as one that is rifled!!!Maybe my brainstorm is not such a good idea and I should leave all thsi up to Getz, Rayl, and Hoyt???....Ed
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Re: Barrel blanks??
« Reply #7 on: May 14, 2009, 11:52:24 PM »
If you're trying to save money, forget it.  If you want to learn how to rifle a barrel and enjoy shooting it, you may be able to find some old barrels that need to be reamed out and re-breeched and re-rifled.  This would simulate what an old time gunsmith might do with a shot out gun.  I have 2 barrels I am freshing now- a .36 and a .64.

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Re: Barrel blanks??
« Reply #8 on: May 15, 2009, 12:29:15 AM »
Amen to Rich. You will nto save any money but you will llearn a lot and have a lot of fun. Everybody ought to rifle a barrel by hand some time and everybody ought to make a flint lock from a pile of scrap iron.
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Re: Barrel blanks??
« Reply #9 on: May 15, 2009, 02:16:27 AM »
Longknife, I have a barrel for ye. Write me.
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Re: Barrel blanks??
« Reply #10 on: May 15, 2009, 02:31:49 AM »
I thought I had sent this already, but I must not have hit the Post button.

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I don't want to "make"barrels,  I can't afford the machinery to do that

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I can't imagine trying to bore out a solid bar or truck axle by hand either

I seem to recall that Hacker Martin used to make barrels out of truck axles.  He didn't have any fancy equipment.  Old axles from the 50's or earlier make the best barrels.
« Last Edit: May 15, 2009, 05:42:54 AM by Acer Saccharum »
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Re: Barrel blanks??
« Reply #11 on: May 15, 2009, 05:10:16 PM »
Dixie use to sell un-rifled barrels (a while back) - don't know if they still do ???
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Re: Barrel blanks??
« Reply #12 on: May 16, 2009, 05:44:34 PM »
Quote from: Longknife on May 14, 2009, 05:32:07 PM
I'm looking for a source of unrifled barrels, I would like to try rifling my own, Any ideas???? Thanks, Ed

Tip Curtis has SB Green Mountain barrels.
I *think* his email is tipcurtis@bellsouth.net
Don't use seamless tubing.

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Re: Barrel blanks??
« Reply #13 on: May 25, 2009, 05:23:29 AM »
you could forge one . that would be fun. ;D
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Offline David Veith

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Re: Barrel blanks??
« Reply #14 on: May 25, 2009, 02:38:39 PM »
Ed Raly (SP)sells us some but I will warn you they are tough to cut. 4150 or 4140 steel is what he uses alot unless he has change.
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Re: Barrel blanks??
« Reply #15 on: May 25, 2009, 02:54:09 PM »
Quote from: msblacksmith on May 25, 2009, 05:23:29 AM
you could forge one . that would be fun. ;D


Yeah, It's real fun! ;D




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