If You Have A Rifle That You Enjoy...

[ShootistJack]

...but your barrel is straight, can you send it out to have it "semi" swamped, the top half?
The goal being to diminish weight and maybe improve handling. I wouldn't though, think
that the bottom half could be swamped, as the bottom half fit's into a sized channel.

 

[tenngun]

I don’t see how it would fit the wood.
In a half stock it might work to swamp or tapper?

 

[loflyr55]

It could be glass bedded on a full stock

 

[Phil Coffins]

That’s starting at the wrong end of picking a rifle. Adding bedding adds weight, not as much as the steel removed perhaps but it would still be a half measure. The only real way I see is to fully disassemble the rifle then swamp the barrel and restock. Or a different rifle that meets you needs.

 

[Loyalist Dave]

...but your barrel is straight, can you send it out to have it "semi" swamped, the top half?
The goal being to diminish weight and maybe improve handling. I wouldn't though, think
that the bottom half could be swamped, as the bottom half fit's into a sized channel.

No not really as your barrel is 8 sided so the lines for the barrel flats on three of the five flats would be all wonky.

LD

 

[ShootistJack]

Thanks for the answers friends.

 

[Pete G]

The top 3 flats can be filed, but weight šaving will be negligible.

 

[billraby]

I think the best way to go is to just build a gun with a swamped barrel. The chance of screwing up a barrel seems rather high. You could have issues with internal stress. I would rather cough up the money for a new barrel than putting that much work into filing away metal.

 

[hanshi]

It would be a too easy way to screw up a good rifle. No flies on straight barrels but a stock just won't look right with a barrel style meant for the other one.

 

[ShootistJack]

Again, Thanks for all the responses!

 

[ohio ramrod]

Barrels have a stress in them from manufacturing which is why the old time gunsmiths would age their barrels before actually finishing them .While modern manufacturing leaves less stress in the steel there is some stress in them. Removing stock from one side but not the other would effect the strain produced from the stress. Which is why when "thinning" pieces of steel or brass it is recomended that you remove equal parts from both sides rather than cutting all of the stock off one side.

 

[concho7]

Stress ! I being a novice ruined a .50 barrel from Numerick Arms , that had never been stress relieved from maker during my training at gunsmith school , set up on milling machine to cut .005 per side doing .180 each cut , next thing I experienced barrel looked like it just saw a lovely naked lady ! So stress relieve barrel before cutting it down to reduce weight .

 

[Flintandsteel]

Shootist,
Do you just sit around all day thinking of these obscure questions?

it’s entertaining…… but strange.

 

[ShootistJack]

Shootist,
Do you just sit around all day thinking of these obscure questions?

it’s entertaining…… but strange.

I can't help it.
My career was based on asking the right questions, and obtaining answers
that withstood intense reexamination, such that those answers could be relied
upon. If the answers initially garnered didn't hold water when we sought info
to substantiate them, new answers were pursued.