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Well here it is I have a dilemma, well actually 2 but we will deal with them one at a time.

First is a full wood longbranch not factory original but FR and FTR marked, bolt receiver and barrel matching, No3 bolthead. Problem is the crown is badly worn and really crappy. Do I keep it as is and shoot it or recrown it, might need a little counter bore. Thing is I have several :rolleyes: other perfectly good enfields I can use as shooters and don’t really need to do any cutting and crowning on the LB. So leave it as is in its original condition, or recrown it ??

Next up my Martini Henry 450/577 also really bad crown has several larger dings in it and really needs to be cleaned up if its going to shoot. Same question should I dress and recrown the barrel, remove about 1/16” to get the damaged part cut back to where I can crown it of leave it as a bit of history ??

Lets hear opinions on what is bubba and what is not :)
 
I recently dealt with a sporterized P14 that keyholed. I went step by step, from "soft" to "hard".

1. Simple recrowning didn't do anything.

2. Moved to conterboring (about three inches). Still no luck, even with larger bullets (I tried .313"). So, decided to move to changing the barrel.

3. Changed barrel, still have to shoot it though, but at least it looks like this should be ok, and with the full wood and handguard it is back to a reasonably prestigious military config.

Lou
 
woodchopper said:
Well here it is I have a dilemma, well actually 2 but we will deal with them one at a time.

First is a full wood longbranch not factory original but FR and FTR marked, bolt receiver and barrel matching, No3 bolthead. Problem is the crown is badly worn and really crappy. Do I keep it as is and shoot it or recrown it, might need a little counter bore. Thing is I have several :rolleyes: other perfectly good enfields I can use as shooters and don’t really need to do any cutting and crowning on the LB. So leave it as is in its original condition, or recrown it ??

Next up my Martini Henry 450/577 also really bad crown has several larger dings in it and really needs to be cleaned up if its going to shoot. Same question should I dress and recrown the barrel, remove about 1/16” to get the damaged part cut back to where I can crown it of leave it as a bit of history ??

Lets hear opinions on what is bubba and what is not :)
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Would just a few thousands off the crown fix it? As in you couldn't tell the difference looking at it? I'd be tempted personally. We wouldn't want to see a half inch bobbed off but a slight touchup...
 
cantom said:
Would just a few thousands off the crown fix it? As in you couldn't tell the difference looking at it? I'd be tempted personally. We wouldn't want to see a half inch bobbed off but a slight touchup...
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The No4 has an interesting profile to the crown, looks like a 30degree crown, war time expedient ??? but this seems to be the standard profile when comparing enfield barrels. I could just chuck it up and follow the same contour and take of 1/32" or so and see how that works out, or try some sort of stepped or recessed crown. Not going to take off any more then I absolutely have to, and want to keep the barrel at its original lenght.

I found that the little tanker savage that I put together will out shoot the LB hands down. But I put a nice flat crown on the savage :D

The MH is going to need to be cut a little to get rid of the really bad ding in the barrel.
 
If I was going to shoot eithe one, I would re crown, setting it back a tenth of an inch, and cut crown the same way as factory. Re-blue and it would be about invisible. If that did not help, I would hang it on the wall, as is.
 
i have found that with the ones i deal with, that get built into tankers, i step inside 5 thou, and make a flat crown. this is the answer from what i have tryed, anyways/ an they seem to shoot the best.
 
Beater said:
i have found that with the ones i deal with, that get built into tankers, i step inside 5 thou, and make a flat crown. this is the answer from what i have tryed, anyways/ an they seem to shoot the best.
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Had a good look at the crown on the LB and compared it to a Maltby, looks like there is enough meat on the LB to give it a nice little stepped crown.

Now to get a new motor for the metal lathe :mad: and I'll be all set
 
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