No more fast-twist Grenn Mountain Barrels?

[Dithsoer]

I was told by a reputable source that Green Mountain is no longer making muzleloading barrels with a fast twist any longer, just patched round ball barrels. If this is true, how can Pecatonica and others still continue to offer rifle kits with fast-twist barrels? Can I expect to get one of these kits and find that it has a slow twist designed for round ball? I can't find the faster-twist barrels on Grenn Mountain's web site either. I was thinking about getting a kit for a target rifle with a fast-twist barrel. Could I end up with a target rifle but with a slow twist not designed for conicals?

 

[Mad Professor]

Have a look here:
Longrange GM barrels 1-28 twist

 

[windwalker_au]

this one aswell
bernie :thumbsup: http://www.gmriflebarrel.com/catalog.aspx?catid=fasttwistbarrelblanks

 

[arquebus]

Check with Brownells, too.
http://www.brownells.com/aspx/ns/s...1&title=BLACK POWDER CARTRIDGE OCTAGON BARREL

They list them as BP Cartridge Barrels, but they we have used them on a number of ML target rifles.

 

[tg]

"I was told by a reputable source that Green Mountain is no longer making muzleloading barrels with a fast twist any longer"

There is no tear in my beer, when I see what's written here...

 

[BrownBear]

Actually Hansen documents a couple of accounts of conicals used in early Hawkens in the fur trade- one a little vague on date. The other first hand and dating to 1846. They were pointed and an inch long. He reports that Hawkens were regularly sighted in at 125 yards, and that the user of the conical bullets upped his powder charge and increased his effective range by half.

In that light, I don't see what the whoop about pointy bullets is all about.

 

[windwalker_au]

Actually Hansen documents a couple of accounts of conicals used in early Hawkens in the fur trade- one a little vague on date. The other first hand and dating to 1846. They were pointed and an inch long. He reports that Hawkens were regularly sighted in at 125 yards, and that the user of the conical bullets upped his powder charge and increased his effective range by half.



In that light, I don't see what the whoop about pointy bullets is all about.

i totaly agree BrownBear in fact it is well known
that hawkens had a 1 in 48 twist barrel and if i where to build one i would have mine with a 1 in 48 twist then the gun would be historically correct.
bernie :thumbsup:

 

[Dithsoer]

I was talking to a rep. at Track of the Wolf about a rilfe kit that I was interested in and when I mentioned that I would be primarily shooting conicals out of it and therefore required a faster-twist barrel, he informed me that they no longer carried such barrels because Green Mountain stopped making fast-twist barrels. I noticed on their site that while they do have a few, they are for a specific rifle, or in .50 caliber only.

 

[tg]

"In that light, I don't see what the whoop about pointy bullets is all about. "


the use of conicals in the 18th and early 18th vcentury is quite well documented, the rub come in in trying to pass off modern design bullets as trdaitional projectiles just because they had some pointy bullets in the pass, with this type of logic then the modern &^% line guns are also traditional because there was an ignition type like that in the past, really no "whoop" some just prefer to keep things in the proper perspective when it comes to traditional vs non traditional gear.

 

[oldarmy]

The reason Green Mountain Rifle barrel is no longer making fast twist muzzle loading barrels is 95+% of their capacity is going to Military production.
M4's for the government's war on terror.
I was just working in the plant a couple of weeks ago.
Hopefully when things get back to normal. You will see them in stock and some new items.

 

[gmww]

Does this mean .40, .36 cal. won't be made?

 

[oldarmy]

I should have said.
They aren't producing enough of them at this time, because of the Military work load.