New life for the Ol girl

[deckerhead]

One thing i noticed was how close a 1911 barrel was to fitting without needing much machining at all for the snider this one is from my 12-6 commander pistol the barrel fits inside the snider barrel,not that i would use it for that.

Wow ?........now 1911 barrel in 9mm insert would be cool maybe ? With low loads of course.

 

[tiriaq]

I have a .38 Super barrel that I don't use. Fitted to a breech collar, and reamed to .38SP, might work nicely as a chamber insert. I am always on the lookout for take-off .35 rifle barrels for this sort of project, but have never had any luck.

 

[rgbai]

Went up to the range today and fired off 50 .44 webley b.p. rounds it's not very accurate with a short smooth bore barrel but i didn't think it would be
the first picture was 10 rounds about 50 feet away it shot high and i had a few misses.



you can see here how hard the firing pin was hitting like mooncoon was saying

 

[deckerhead]

I have a .38 Super barrel that I don't use. Fitted to a breech collar, and reamed to .38SP, might work nicely as a chamber insert. I am always on the lookout for take-off .35 rifle barrels for this sort of project, but have never had any luck.

The only problem I see with pistol barrels as inserts is that they would need to be permanent...as they are to long to slide in and out ?

 

[H Wally]

For anyone doing this, consider the krieghoff designs that have a built in extractor attached to the insert - the gun's extractor/ejector acts on the insert's extractor and allows you to eject the case without having to remove the adapter and poke the case out with a stick. Pretty slick design and well worth the effort if space allows for it.