George Holton
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Has anyone succesfully freshed out an old barrel? and what meathod did you use? Bob 
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Yes I have. This is what I made to do the job.
I poured lead several inches apart on a piece of hickory, lined up the grooves and put in a cutter that I made from tool steel.
The dove tail was made to remove so that it would remove the pressure from the cutter. I shimmed up the cutter using a ciggarette paper for a new pass. Once the grooves were finished I mad a new stick and cutter for the lands.
Forgot to mention I used the slower than a big box of slow things method.
I poured lead several inches apart on a piece of hickory, lined up the grooves and put in a cutter that I made from tool steel.
The dove tail was made to remove so that it would remove the pressure from the cutter. I shimmed up the cutter using a ciggarette paper for a new pass. Once the grooves were finished I mad a new stick and cutter for the lands.
Forgot to mention I used the slower than a big box of slow things method.
George Holton
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Thank you sir
Working with an old barrel bore can be done as the material used back then and rifling process of cutting the bore and grooves was the standard method...Todays barrels are not always cut, but button rifled...Works for rifling that is pretty shallow for work with bullets...
Trying to work with cutters on a bore that has button rifled is more difficult/hard on tooling as the button rifling method tends to hardened the the bore and grooves... :winking: ...The Lizard...
Trying to work with cutters on a bore that has button rifled is more difficult/hard on tooling as the button rifling method tends to hardened the the bore and grooves... :winking: ...The Lizard...
Shelby Skinner
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I had a barrel re-bored and rifled on an old H. House rifle I owned by the Getz's. It was a .36 and they made it a .40... This was a while back and they told me that freshing out the barrel wasn't a good idea because it was a button rifled barrel.
Shot better than most of my modern rifles after that!
Shot better than most of my modern rifles after that!
George Holton
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The barrel that I want to save is really old, has been shortened from the brech at least once. has snake track stipple engraving on the top. is swamped and has really dep rifleing.Have had it for years ,should really quit messing mabout and do it. thanks to all of you. Bob And no name on the barrel. durn.
