Thread: New barrel

Hi Guys, I am / have made a new barrel for my Hawken plains rifle, the first barrel was good with a patched round ball, 2" group at 50m, but the barrel had a tight spot six inches in from the muzzle and it was a pita to get a bullet in. So as I had a one meter length of round 1045 steel x 1" and all the add on bits to drill, ream, rifle , I thought give it a go and see if I could a better job, I used the new gun drill that I made the Sharps barrel with, so it is .457" bore and still a 1-33" left handed twist . The old barrel had the ramrod guide and tube soldered to it, so got them off and glued them on to the new barrel with J B Weld, fingers X, should stay put, not like it`s going to get hot with rapid fire. All I've got to do now is brown it and then a range shoot to see if it`s any good.
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