• This community needs YOUR help today. We rely 100% on Supporting Memberships to fund our efforts. With the ever increasing fees of everything, we need help. We need more Supporting Members, today. Please invest back into this community. I will ship a few decals too in addition to all the account perks you get.



    Sign up here: https://www.muzzleloadingforum.com/account/upgrades

Round barrels?

Muzzleloading Forum

Help Support Muzzleloading Forum:

This site may earn a commission from merchant affiliate links, including eBay, Amazon, and others.

cyten

Eastern Miquelets
Joined
Jul 9, 2012
Messages
422
Reaction score
1,175
Location
Caucasus
Are there any barrel makers making full round barrels? I can only find octagon or octagon to round
 
What kind of barrel are you looking for? Smooth bore or rifled? Where have you looked? Track of the Wolf usually has a pretty good selection.
Either or, just trying to gauge availability. I’ve checked track and they only have octagon and octagon to round, like everyone else I’ve checked (Dixie, colerain, rice, etc)
 
Stole this pic from the search feature…

0B25F034-08CA-4E28-AC83-21E1B7457147.jpeg


Jackie Brown gun too my understanding.
 
Unless I mis-understood Colerain Barrel. They would make what I wanted on the exterior of the barrel.
 
Rifled or smoothbore is the question really. As mentioned Colerain for a Bess barrel. Rice makes Hudson Valley and Dolep fowler full round barrels.
 
any barrel maker who makes an octagon to round can also make a full round barrel. you just have to talk with them. might be cheaper because they can turn the whole barrel on a lathe instead of having to turn it and set up a milling machine. or might be more expensive because it is out of their normal workflow.
 
Another option(s) has occured to me: T/C made a gun called the New Englander. It came in .45, , .50, .54, and 12 gauge (smoothbore, with and without removeable chokes). The Greyhawk is another one made with round barrels, and it was made of stainless steel. I recently became aware of called the High Plains Sporter, which was basically a New Englander with a pistol grip incorporated into the stock. New Englanders generally don't go for top dollar in today's market.

So, if you want a round barrel, that is an option. You could just buy the gun and use it as it is, or make the stock you want and fit the relevant parts. If you take the first option, you'd be saving hundreds, and as I and others will attest, the New Englander, though not their top of the line gun, IS quite serviceable, as a rifle or a shotgun.

I suppose you could draw-file an octagon barrel round, but that seems like too much work to me.
 
Not sure you will find a round rifled barrel. But shouldn't be too hard to find a round smoothbore.
Maybe @dave_person will know. Brown Bess and some fowling piece guns would require a round barrel to build and those are his forte.
 
Was just gonna say....Call Ken Netting . he makes great barrels and only round ones . When I get one from him I have to grind the flats on ....
 
Back
Top