What do people do with shot-out precision shooting barrels?
- Thread starter adriel
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brenden270
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- Kootenays BC
Have custom dies made from the chambers.
Always wondered where they went?
A barrel that falls to .25 or worse
would still make a beautiful knock-around gun or hunting gun if powerful enough for bigger game hunting.Barrels can be set back and reused. Could well be accurate enough for many purposes. I took a retired .308 target barrel and machined it at both ends so that it would fit a No. 4 for a friend. Shot pretty well. Ex benchrest 6mm barrels can be reworked for varmint rifles, although the slow twist will limit bullet weight. As brendan270 suggested, they can also be source of steel for other purposes. Seems a shame to just use them as rebar.
Could the barrel not be re-bored to a larger caliber? Just thinking that a shot out 7mm barrel could make a good .300 win mag if re-bored and reamed. Is that not possible, or just not possible in Canada??
Asking this as I also wonder and just thought with the right facilities something like this could be done.
Asking this as I also wonder and just thought with the right facilities something like this could be done.
It would probably cost just about as much as buying a new barrel plus normally I believe you discard the last one to two inches of the barrrel because of tool chatter and irregularity. Normally that is not an issue at the breach end because the chamber occupies that end but in the case of an existing barrel you would have concerns at both breach and muzzle
cheers mooncoon
The barrel makers equipment is set up for doing barrel blanks of a specific size. I believe reboring and rifling would only work with cut rifling, so that limits the numbers as well. Then you have to find a maker who isn't so busy making barrels that he can find the time to work an oddity into the set up. After wards cut a big hunk off each end to get rid of the irregularities...
...it is easier to use the steel for steel...
