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Thread: Vulcan Stainless barrels?

  1. 13-04-2020, 09:23 PM #1
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    Vulcan Stainless barrels?

    are vulcan stainless barrels any good for semi custom rifles also are lapped when you buy a barrel blank?
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  3. 13-04-2020, 09:47 PM #2
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    Quote Originally Posted by quadhunter260 View Post
    are vulcan stainless barrels any good for semi custom rifles also are lapped when you buy a barrel blank?
    Are they still in production?

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  4. 13-04-2020, 09:53 PM #3
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    Following as I tried to contact them a while back and never got any response.

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  5. 13-04-2020, 10:06 PM #4
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    Quote Originally Posted by quadhunter260 View Post
    are vulcan stainless barrels any good for semi custom rifles also are lapped when you buy a barrel blank?
    Button rifled
    Stress relieved
    Hand lapped

    Available in rifle
    223
    257
    264
    277
    284
    30
    375
    45
    50

    And a whole heap of pistol cals
    He has a hydraulic copy lathe and can replicate any profile

    He has 3 barrels on the go for me as soon as I can get to see him after level 4 and sort out some minor profiling details
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    Quote Originally Posted by akaroa1 View Post
    Button rifled
    Stress relieved
    Hand lapped

    Available in rifle
    223
    257
    264
    277
    284
    30
    375
    45
    50

    And a whole heap of pistol cals
    He has a hydraulic copy lathe and can replicate any profile

    He has 3 barrels on the go for me as soon as I can get to see him after level 4 and sort out some minor profiling details
    out of interest will he copy factory skinny profiles? like MK V ultralight or kimber? i know a bunch wont go that light.
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    @akaroa1 no 243/6mm🤔 bugga
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    Good to hear he's still going. I had one of his bagels about 10 years ago that I never did anything with that I always regret

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    Quote Originally Posted by Stocky View Post
    out of interest will he copy factory skinny profiles? like MK V ultralight or kimber? i know a bunch wont go that light.
    I guess so
    It's an amazing lathe
    He can put the old barrel in the back spindle and perfectly copy it
    Or use a 2D profile
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  10. 13-04-2020, 10:22 PM #9
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    Quote Originally Posted by quadhunter260 View Post
    @akaroa1 no 243/6mm�� bugga
    Yes no 6mm for some reason
    I wrote down all of the calibers he had when I visited him a while ago
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    Your wouldn't know what twist rate he runs?

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    Quote Originally Posted by mimms2 View Post
    And no .224.
    Shame.
    224 my mistake
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    He doesn't have reamer or buttons for .22 rimfire
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