Often on here the advice to have a barrel rebored is given. I suspect that the cost of having it done is usually more than the value of the gun being discussed. Can-will anyone tell what they've recently paid for such a service?
barrel reboring
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The last barrel I had rebored about a year ago cost around $150. Best to call whoever it is you are planning to use if you want an accurate price. Prices are going up every day.
Heck, the cost of shipping on a barrel to and fro will be almost as much as the rebore itself.
Yes, but the existing barrel already fits the stock and works with the action. You get a new barrel and that's all up for grabs.
It was pre-Covid, but Bobby Hoyt bored & rifled a couple of barrels for me at IIRC, $135 each. One he did he was going to freshen, but the rifling was a left hand twist and he couldn't do that so bored it out from .50 to .54. That was a T-C Pennsylvania Hunter with the reverse twist.
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I wouldn't see why a new barrel could not be matched to replace an old one, just mirror the existing barrels features and or adjust the fit of the barrel in the stock unless there is too much of a difference in the barrel type. I am thinking of the same thing but I have a stock blank and the barrel is old and have thought what I paid for the barrel and then to send it out and have it rebored it could easily be the price of a brand new one.
Did that include the shipping to and from? If so it is not as bad for a couple barrels. Wondering if it would be even cheaper for a couple smoothbores.
Mr Hoyt charges less to rebore to a smoothbore. Forget what he stated the cost was last time I talked to him. And obviously shipping multiple barrels at a time will save on shipping.
Thanks for the info SDSmlf.
I think some are weighing the difficulty of fitting a new barrel to an existing breechplug, cutting dovetails and fitting underlugs and sights, possible fitting a rib, and so on. If they get the original barrel freshened or bored out and re-rifled, none of that work will need to be done.
I sometimes recut rifling on original wrought iron barrels for $75-125 depending on how much work is involved. But they can’t be sewer pipes and can’t be completely eroded at breech or muzzle. This is only of interest to those who want to keep the form if an original barrel just as it is and not look new or modern. But the shipping is painfully expensive. At least $30 each way.
I guess it also depends on if there is not much to rebore, and if the breech plug has been removed either by unscrewing or sawing off. I have 2 smoothbores one seems to be in the 58 cal realm and the other in the 60 or 62 caliber realm (depends on which end I mic) they are around 33 to 36 inches long ( no breech plugs) . So figuring for a tube and shipping then the actual reboring cost, it might be a better deal to go for the rebore. Sorry Tom, trying not to hijack the thread but I think we are in the same kind of boat per say.
Bobby Hoyt just rebored a 3220 to 3240 for $100.00. About fell over I expected twice that much. This is the second barrel he has done for me an LG and Y was relined and breech plug removed as well as the nipple for 200.00. Excellent work but be patient he is very busy. He also currently has another barrel of mine.
Did that include shipping?
No I live fairly close so I picked it up. Needed an excuse for a road trip.
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Mr. Hoyt is THE go-to guy for great work, reasonable prices, and good turn-around time. Shipping a plain barrel shouldn't be a big pain, it's only a narrow tubular package, after all.
It cost me $40.00 to ship mine one way to Bobby from Idaho. I believe he's in PA.
Correct me if I'm wrong but 32-20 to 32-40 is a rechamber in a cartridge gun, not a reline of a muzzleloader.
Yes they are both cartridge calibers but the LG and Y is a civil war rifle.
