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Where can I find/or have made.... a sleeve, made from blued steel to cover the tip of a rifle. this is to cover up an exposed area where there once was a front sight. Diametre is 9/16" and length is 1 7/8"

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Any good machinist should be able to make one for you. Do you want it permanent, or want to be able to take it off? It looks like you will have to have it turned once it's on the barrel to get it to match the profile.
 
How about thread and get a custom muzzle brake? Any machinist worth his salt should be able to turn you something for the end of it.
 
gunrunner100 said:
Any good machinist should be able to make one for you. Do you want it permanent, or want to be able to take it off? It looks like you will have to have it turned once it's on the barrel to get it to match the profile.
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permanent, or take-off... makes no difference to me...

actually I don't care if it matches the profil or not. The diametre of the sleeve can be larger than the barrel itself, it will give it the "weighted muzzle barrel" look.

like this:
http://www.gmriflebarrel.com/catalog.aspx?catid=RugerTargetBarrels
 
What if drill out a flash hider and use a set screw to keep it on.Give's you the look and save's the cost of threading your barrel.
 
Don't know the calibre or current barrel length or if you are emotionally attached to the last 2 inches but it may be simpler to simply remove it and recrown...not very creative but simple and cheap and might not effect the performance at all - might even improve it - different harmonics and all etc etc
 
A barrel weight for a spring-cocker air rifle might slip right on and require no machining. Diana makes such a weight, probably Beeman too.

say w w w.airgunexpress.com/Accessories/RWS/rwsmuzzlebrakes407-01-2662+.htm
 
If you want to do this the correct way, you should put the barrel in the lathe and machine the part where you are going to install the sleeve, machine it down to the diameter where it is grooved, probably around .500”. Then make a tight fitting sleeve slightly larger then the outside of the diameter of the barrel it self and slightly longer then the barrel. Then press fit the sleeve on the end of the barrel. Then put the barrel back in the lathe, and machine the sleeve to the size of the barrel.
 
Skeetgunner has the right idea. The barrel is a standard size (14 mm I think) for the mounting of sights, and I'd be willing to bet that it's a fairly expensive .22 cal rifle.
 
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