Does anyone have a good address for Bob? Talked to him the other day and he was very busy. Said to send him my barrel.
Barrel Rebore Question
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Bobby Hoyt
Freischutz Shop
2379 Mt Hope Rd
Fairfield, PA 17320
ph# 717-642-6696
You have to call him early in the day, 8-9 o’clock. Don’t get discouraged if he doesn’t answer immediately.
Just go over on eBay and look for a CVA 58 Cal Barrel.
Stock is for, I think, a 15/16 barrel.
Thanks! I called around 4pm the other day and talked to him
I just spoke with Mr. Hoyt about this very topic. I just sent him a Traditions barrel (same breech as CVA). I don't think he would have a problem with your barrel.
Thread 'Bobby Hoyt and Traditions/CVA barrels' https://www.muzzleloadingforum.com/threads/bobby-hoyt-and-traditions-cva-barrels.181398/
Thread 'Bobby Hoyt and Traditions/CVA barrels' https://www.muzzleloadingforum.com/threads/bobby-hoyt-and-traditions-cva-barrels.181398/
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Your post has revived a long standing interest and dream of mine to make rifle barrels. Not in any kind of production sense but just a few of my own to learn the nuance of deep hole boring and single point hook rifling.
I have bored/reamed out and relined quite a few barrels but have never set up the machine I have the plans for to deep hole bore billets and rifle them which I believe to be the easier part. Getting a straight hole bored through a solid billet over 40 inches I fear will be quite a daunting task !
I have acquired a rifling stand which is set up to use an already rifled barrel as the guide and the rifling head tooling but have never had space enough indoors to set it up and try it out.
I've read up on rifling and believe I have the machine skill to do it well but the deep hole boring of a solid billet is a skill I will have to learn from scratch and I'm quite sure is the most technical part of barrel making.
LaBonty and a couple of others books I have on barrel making will be a great help but only trial and error experience will ever produce anything worth shooting.
It is a retirement dream of mine to stay busy making gun stuff.
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Ya both of my .58s are 1"
My wife says I am wrong so often that I got to be right eventually.
