Historical Smooth Rifles

[Brokennock]

Not harder, but it is boring. One pass each of 2-3 drills of increasing size till the rifling is gone. Then an hour of reaming. All done in a morning, I’d think.

Sounds boring...

 

[Raindog1799]

Sounds boring...

It was just laying there and you had to pick it up…. Puns are for scoundrels and neer-do-wells!

 

[ronaldrothb49]

Odd that boring out cost less. I would imagine it to be more work. Less precise work, but more work nonetheless.

It surprised me how little he charged to freshen a barrel, that is a lot of work. First you have to make a casting of the bore. Then you have to make a cutter and install it into the casting for one groove. You would then run that through the barrel several times then shim the cutter to go slightly deeper and repeat that till you got the depth you wanted. Thats just one groove it all had to be repeated for each groove.