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You can see a picture here. They are nice guns for the money.
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Mark, I noticed something a bit odd about their pricing. The Cumberland Smoothbore is available with a rifled barrel at $25.00 extra. Why extra? It is a straight octagon barrel which should cost LESS than the half round tapered smoothbore barrels and cost LESS to inlet as well. I should think a straight octagon barrel should reduce the price by at least 100 bucks. What do you think?
I think they have a source of low cost octagon to round smooth barrels.
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Hydraulic tubing
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I'm workin' on a hydraulic steel barrel with a friend at work .It mics out to .555 (close to 28ga) inside diameter. he's putting in a breach plug and will try her out at his farm.
ERA says they proofed their barrel with 250 grs of powder and 5 or 6 patched round balls.
If it works I mite look up Bookie's riflin' machine and give that a try.
ERA says they proofed their barrel with 250 grs of powder and 5 or 6 patched round balls.
If it works I mite look up Bookie's riflin' machine and give that a try.
I'd sure like to find a tapered octagon to round smoothbore barrel for 25 bucks less than a straight octagon. The best price I could find for a smoothbore barrel for my T/C Penn. Hunter was from Jack Garner and that was still 60 bucks more than a Green Mountain 36" straight octagon. :haha: Yes, it is tubing as well.
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CoyoteJoe said:
I think you will find the extra costs are not external. The $25 extra is to cover the costs of rifling the barrel, considering the work involved $25 is a prety good deal.
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A straight octogon would be all wrong for this gun. I'm not sure why they even offer it. I've spoken to the owner over the phone, and he seems like a nice guy. I get nervous about builders that take orders that far out. A lot can happen in 16+ months and I seen some pretty messy deals go down.
Not at all, Track lists Green Mountain straight octagon 42" RIFLED barrels at $92.50 and the cheapest octagon-round smoothbore (their own make) is $160.00. Pecatonica River charges an additional $35.00 to inlet a tapered or swamped barrel. You'll notice that all kits with swamped barrels, rifled or smooth, run at least $100.00 more than a similar kit with straight octagon.Toomuch_36 said:
Since the PA Hunter is 15/16 at the breech, I doubt you'll find a barrel larger than 20 gauge. The barrel needs to be straight octagon up to the end of the forestock, then transitioning to tapered round. If that interests you I'd give Jack Garner a call, sorry I don't have his number at hand right now. My barrel is what Jack calls a .54, which actually mikes .560", making 28 gauge wads a bit loose but certainly easy to load. I didn't ask how large he would bore them as I was happy with the 28 gauge for bunnies. :grin:Finnwolf said:
