I doubt that is the problem. I took top shooter in my club last year with a different rifle. "The Hawken Shop" is my local black powder shop. Greg has a barrel press so we will give bending the barrel a try. If it doesn't work, I am not out anything. The tang on this particular rifle is part of the barrel with the breech plug being a hex drive plug under the tang. This makes rotating the barrel or even replacing the barrel much more of a problem.By any chance are you cross eyed dominant? Have you had windage problems with other rifles in the past?
A rifle that puts five shots touching, (wasn't that at 25 yards, where almost any barrel will shoot that well?) at only one specific range, with the sights totally catty-wonkus, hanging out into thin air left and right, is not what I'd call a "keeper". Kentucky windage, that actually does not work so well. Brit actually has the best advice on shooting this rifle.Personally, if it shoots as good as you say, and you don't feel you can drift both the rear and front sights in opposite directions to get your point of impact equal your point of aim, I'd just make the corrections in my aim. I sure wouldn't get rid of a barrel that would put 5 shots touching.
Not reluctant to give details. I am not sure what I didn't post. The brand is a Richlund or Richmond. There is a screw hole in the middle of the word. I got it for a bit more than the price of the lock. I have no history on the gun. Dutch Schoultz had a similar one about 30 years ago. For some reason, I find this an extremely comfortable weapon to shoot. I am not really out anything if bending the barrel doesn't work. I might see what i have for a receiver sight that might work first. I will post results but I had an operation on my right shoulder and can't do any shooting yet. Any other information you want, let me know.He said it was only new to him. We are missing a lot of information here...OP seems reluctant to give details? Again, no matter how far you hang a sight off the side, peep or any other, the rifle will not shoot to POA at different ranges. Only at the range it is sighted in at.
If it's shooting way off at 25 yards, as the OP says, and he gets it sighted at 25, it will be "way off" at 50 yards, and way-way off at 100. If he got/gets his POA to match his POI at 100, it will be way off at 25, 50, and anything over 100. The barrel is a loss.
The best suggestions are to re-barrel it, and for the OP to wrap the funky barrel around the head of the person that sold it to him. That would not be that big of a deal. (or shoot it gangster style, per Brit) Bending it is not an option, and the side pressure of the stock on the barrel, once bent will not enhance accuracy. And again, even a smooth bore will shoot impressive groups at 25 yards. "Five holes touching" at 25 yards only shows that the barrel likes the load, the bore and rifling are good, and that the shooter is doing his job well.
I for one would really like to see the OP fill in the blanks. More information. Again, who made the rifle? Was the price "too good to be true"? What else does he know about it's history? Stuff like that. But bottom line, he's not going to "fix" that barrel, or get any kind of satisfactory sighting system on it. Other than a scope, where you could adjust it with a specific number of "clicks" left or right, for every 25 yard change in range. ???????????!!
Not reluctant to give details. I am not sure what I didn't post. The brand is a Richlund or Richmond. There is a screw hole in the middle of the word. I got it for a bit more than the price of the lock. I have no history on the gun. Dutch Schoultz had a similar one about 30 years ago. For some reason, I find this an extremely comfortable weapon to shoot. I am not really out anything if bending the barrel doesn't work. I might see what i have for a receiver sight that might work first. I will post results but I had an operation on my right shoulder and can't do any shooting yet. Any other information you want, let me know.
On the first sentence, good question. !!! I'm gonna have to think about that! Seems that would be true....but, what would the hold be like...?? That's a mind-bender. On Your second thought, that all still seems more trouble than to just re-barrel it.You may be right Rat.
But on the other hand, if the sights were mounted to be parallel with the actual run out of the bore to match it, then it wouldn't only be accurate for a specific distance, would it?
Another thought that I had was if the exterior dimensions on both sides of the barrel could be honed to match the barrel exterior with the run out of the bore, then perhaps the barrel channel could be re-bedded with compound so that the bore more closely lined up with the direction of the barrel channel and stock.
But the barrel breech would need to be cut off and re-breeched since the tang would be out of alignment, and the lock position may need work too.
Not worth ruining the stock over a bad barrel.
I suppose that the barrel could be cut up and used to make pistol barrels with if the run out problem could be corrected in sections by honing the exterior dimensions to align with the interior bore.
Once roughly aligned, the sections could be rebreech for project guns.
Otherwise the barrel wouldn't have much of any value.
Well, sounds like if you got the rifle for the price of the lock, (I'm not surprised) the most easy thing would be to re-barrel it. Why mess with a bad barrel? You will be out time and hassle. Have your tang and breech put on another barrel. Sorry about your shoulder. From now on, only injure the left one. !Not reluctant to give details. I am not sure what I didn't post. The brand is a Richlund or Richmond. There is a screw hole in the middle of the word. I got it for a bit more than the price of the lock. I have no history on the gun. Dutch Schoultz had a similar one about 30 years ago. For some reason, I find this an extremely comfortable weapon to shoot. I am not really out anything if bending the barrel doesn't work. I might see what i have for a receiver sight that might work first. I will post results but I had an operation on my right shoulder and can't do any shooting yet. Any other information you want, let me know.
On the first sentence, good question. !!! I'm gonna have to think about that! Seems that would be true....but, what would the hold be like...?? That's a mind-bender.
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