More Home rifled Barrels

[Carper]

First I want to thank each of you that made such nice comments on our East Tennessee rifles and home cut rifling.  I would have stopped in good taste but now you can blame Geackle for asking to see more detail 😂.     I would say we are crowding a couple hundred barrels by now.  We used to ream up old barrels by hand and re-rifle them but don’t anymore , it was too much work.   We now purchase the barrel as a smooth bore of desired caliber and rifle it as such.  These rifles will shoot a ball under 2” at 100 yards and a hollow base bullet about as well. The narrow grooves are harder to clean that modern rifling. You can see our scope mount for testing just how well will they shoot.  One ragged hole at 50yards. We fire it like a cannon so we don’t add the variable of how well we can shoot or hold the gun. I tell you this for fact . I bought a 48” 45 caliber in 1” barrel Getz to make a chunk rifle. I took 10 different load combos and picked the best and fired about 20 groups of rounds each from our scoped testing rig at 60 yards it shot great on a windless day.  I then swapped a 42” long 1” diameter  45 caliber  that we just cut with the same load development .   I built the rifle around ours and sold that Getz on this forum. I don’t understand how those results could be possible and maybe they wouldn’t again. But they did.   So these home barrels shoot well.  Again thanks to you all.

[Bob Roller]

Great work and don't worry about good taste.THAT belongs to FOODS and nothing mechanical and if you are getting good results with what you are making,it ain't broke so don't fix it.
Bob Roller

[oldtravler61]

  Accurate rifles are the only thing that matters to me.  Well done...!