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I have a rifle with a bent barrel .its not a big bend just enough to see . Is it worth getting it straightened .has anyone ever had one done and what was the result. :HR:SLIPP
 
Make? Model? Caliber?
How does it shoot? Is the point of impact acceptable?

Straightening it may or may not offer any benefit and would cost from $25 on up.
 
It should straighten fine if it is not 'kinked'.. gradual bends need gradual bending back... best done by an experienced hand.
 
They are straightened at factory and checked by eye for straightness by looking through bore. It would depend on the amount it's bent...
 
Stepped on?

I straightened a barrel on a Norc M14, it got stepped on and bent in front of the gas port, easy to see on the outside! I put it in a vice and pulled on it checking often by eye. Put the front sight back on the witness mark and it shot nuts on.

Take it out of the stock first.
 
I straightened a .270 barrel once years ago. Made a couple of blocks with a groove to put it in a vice. Bent it using a pipe wrench after I wrapped the barrel with a rag and duct tape. Went easy and slow on it and it shot well afterwards. Not much to it really. Mine was bent due to a quad roll over. I think that's what causes most bent barrels these days. I really don't think you have much to lose here by attempting this yourself. The cost to re-barrel anything is beyond the price of the gun in a lot cases.
 
Pages 275 through 279 in Clyde Baker's Modern Gunsmithing describes the process. Straightening barrels is done often in factories - can find picture on internet of barrels being straightened in Anschutz factory. Easy to bend. Trick is to clean bore well, peer through bore at a vertical line (hanging string on plumb bob) and use the shadow line in the bore to show you where, exactly the bend is. As you rotate the bore, the shadow line will also show you the direction of the bend. My brother in Grande Cache bent his Win Model 70 300 Win Mag when he dumped his snowmobile. Corlanes straightened it easily - said they just love snowmobiles - great for their business. Rifle shoots was well as it ever did.
 
I would vote against doing it without proper tools.
It is easy to bend it to much and in different place than intended.
With HD lathe, two brass centres, good .001" indicator and wooden block in front of tool post is quite doable.
Forget "pipe wrench", "duct tape" hammers and such....that's a bubba's way the fastest way to disaster.
 
You're right to seek out someone with the right tools. Padded "V" blocks and a press is the best way to apply the localized force needed to do the job right.
 
Thousands have been straightened in the padded jaws of a vise... in minutes... something every 'smith' has.
 
Barrels are somewhat elastic and have to be bent past straight so that they will spring back to where you want them. It takes a fair bit of judgement and trial and error to get the amount extra, correct. That also translates into some method of measuring how much over bend you have used so you can increase in small increments until straight

cheers mooncoon
 
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