Ruger Blackhawk Barrel Bulge

[IM_Lugger]

Just tell people it's ribbed for pleasure

 

[Dexter Morgan]

1) Machine off the lump with a lathe.

2) Re-blue.

3) Sell on EE.

4) Just kidding. Replace the barrel.

 

[plinker 777]

I don't think you will be selling many fire arms on this site.

statement to be sure....and Tom Waits has walked the sewers of Paris

 

[Casper]

Time to get a new barrel, and nows your chance to get a 4 5/8" barrel

 

[Andy]

Did you have a hangfire on any of the rounds you fired that day?

 

[Canuck223]

Just incase any one else thought it was a good idea... Turning the "bump" down on a lathe is going to end up really dangerous!!!
Here is why
A gun barrel is a tube if the outside is bulged so is the inside.
A lathe will indeed cut the "bump" back to the correct out side dimension but the "bump" still exists on the inside.
So what you end put with is a barrel that has a very thin spot in it!!!
This could and probably would explode as the structural integrity is now gone.
If your still not getting it think pull trigger and half the barrel goes flying down range. Or worse the barrel tears on one side and comes flying back at you.

Turn the "bump" down is a very stupid idea and a very good way to get you and others injured.
So in short if you don't know what your talking about keep your trap shut. Don't work on your fire arms if you don't know what your doing!!!
Please!

At the origional Trillium Sports range, one cunning individual did precisely that with a Sig 210.

He bulged the barrel with poo-tastic reloads. The on site gunsmith looked it over and told him to break out the wallet, as a new barrel was in order.

The customer took home his collection of parts and had his friend turn the barrel.

Of course when he launched the muzzle section of the barrel into the backstop, he told all and sundry that the gunsmith had worked on it, and neglected to mention the rest of the story.

 

[dead meat]

Well instead of machining off the bulge you could lay it on the anvil and hammer it back into shape. then sell it on EE as a hammer forged barrel.