Does anyone make a full round or swamped smoothbore fowler barrel with a flat on the top near the breech?

[Trapper1993]

Looking for a barrel with a flat area at the top. Usually these are triangle shaped and have the gunsmiths name and city on them. Barrel diagrams from Rice and Colerain do not show this so i was wondering if anyone knows of a barrel profile that does. These only extend about 6 inches from the breech

 

[Sam squanch]

May have to break out the files.

 

[ronaldrothb49]

It would be easier to file the flat after the breech plug has been installed in the barrel. If the flat is there to start with then you have to index the breech plug to match up with it.

 

[Capt. Jas.]

Looking for a barrel with a flat area at the top. Usually these are triangle shaped and have the gunsmiths name and city on them. Barrel diagrams from Rice and Colerain do not show this so i was wondering if anyone knows of a barrel profile that does. These only extend about 6 inches from the breech
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Ed Rayl has made me some barrels like that but hand file work still needs to be employed. Unless that is a Spanish pattern barrel, the bottom is round.

 

[Comfortably_Numb]

That type of flat has to be filed in by hand. Dave Person has done it.

 

[Rob M.]

Just buy a round barrel from Ken Netting and after breeching it file your flat on top ...easy peezy . He makes great barrels .

 

[Sam squanch]

If you have never filed a lot, get some old pipe and practice filing a flat.

 

[deerstalkert]

Rice made a Dolep barrel with oct. to round. call and talk to a people and you may get what you want.
https://ricebarrels.com/product/41-1730-dolep-original/

 

[Comfortably_Numb]

You guys don't understand. That isn't just a simple filed flat. It's a step from round to flat. The flat is a plateau raised above the surrounding barrel. Only way to accomplish this is with careful filing. As I mentioned before, Dave Person has demonstrated this before. If not here, then it was the ALR.

 

[deerstalkert]

i am not sure we are getting the true picture of what the OP is after. he shows two different styles of contour.
i will go back to feeding the stove now.

 

[sussexmuzllodr]

You guys don't understand. That isn't just a simple filed flat. It's a step from round to flat. The flat is a plateau raised above the surrounding barrel. Only way to accomplish this is with careful filing. As I mentioned before, Dave Person has demonstrated this before. If not here, then it was the ALR.

I get what you mean, rather than a round a "Steppe" of sorts was added when the barrel was made. Yes?

 

[Comfortably_Numb]

I get what you mean, rather than a round a "Steppe" of sorts was added when the barrel was made. Yes?

Yes. It was filed in after the barrel was forged.

 

[Comfortably_Numb]

i am not sure we are getting the true picture of what the OP is after. he shows two different styles of contour.
i will go back to feeding the stove now.

They both have the same treatment, the bottom one is hard to see. Both of these are on higher end British guns. On French guns you'll see it on even trade level guns, also a common feature on New England fowling guns.

 

[Comfortably_Numb]

On French and new england barrels that plateau is often filed in for the full length of the barrel.

 

[rich pierce]

I agree 100% this is file work. Of course some genius could probably CNC a barrel to such a profile and sell a dozen a year or so.

 

[Comfortably_Numb]

Here's some pictures that may help. It's my 1720 to 40 Liege trade gun. The barrel is octagon fading to round. The plateaus start and stop along the way. The side flats have the same plateau technique and end at about the rear ramrod pipe.