barrel liner

[morper]

Anyone had experience with barrel liners for revolvers?

 

[dan belisle]

Seen it done on an old 22. I can't see why it wouldn't work as well in low pressure handgun cartridges as it does for low pressure rifle cartridges. - dan

 

[ciphery]

This will be interesting to follow as an old webbley of my dads needs a liner, or a barrel. But don't want to do away with the nickel one on the gun.

 

[tiriaq]

The only concern I would have with sleeving a pistol barrel is how much steel would be left after the bore was reamed out, and how thick the liner would be. Some pistol barrels are rather slender. A thin walled liner could also present problems in the area of the forcing cone.

 

[morper]

What I had in mind would be for a Colt Python 357mag. Pretty thick material is you ask me, but I don't know how much is the barrel vs surrounding metal.

 

[marshall]

There is not all that much steel at the frame.
look at the end of the barrel at the cylinder and you
will see what I mean.
A s/w 357m was sleaved because of the stupid 4 inch
12-6 crap.
I believe a model 66 , the forcing cone went to hell .
If you are going to do this, I would suggest stopping the
liner ( and drill ) before it reaches the chamber end of the barrel,
so as to keep the forcing cone intact.