Round barrels?

[cyten]

Are there any barrel makers making full round barrels? I can only find octagon or octagon to round

 

[Dale Allen Raby]

What kind of barrel are you looking for? Smooth bore or rifled? Where have you looked? Track of the Wolf usually has a pretty good selection.

 

[cyten]

What kind of barrel are you looking for? Smooth bore or rifled? Where have you looked? Track of the Wolf usually has a pretty good selection.

Either or, just trying to gauge availability. I’ve checked track and they only have octagon and octagon to round, like everyone else I’ve checked (Dixie, colerain, rice, etc)

 

[rich pierce]

I think Colerain made a Brown Bess barrel. Other than that it’s custom. Hoyt, Charles Burton, Ed Rayl, and so on.

 

[smo]

Stole this pic from the search feature…

Jackie Brown gun too my understanding.

 

[cannonball1]

Unless I mis-understood Colerain Barrel. They would make what I wanted on the exterior of the barrel.

 

[The Crisco Kid]

Give Pecatonica a call. I think Colerain may make round barrels. I'm thinking of one in smooth bore. Also, if you know someone with a lathe it's no big deal to make an octagon barrel round.

 

[martin9]

Rifled or smoothbore is the question really. As mentioned Colerain for a Bess barrel. Rice makes Hudson Valley and Dolep fowler full round barrels.

 

[Sean E Bug]

any barrel maker who makes an octagon to round can also make a full round barrel. you just have to talk with them. might be cheaper because they can turn the whole barrel on a lathe instead of having to turn it and set up a milling machine. or might be more expensive because it is out of their normal workflow.

 

[Dale Allen Raby]

Another option(s) has occured to me: T/C made a gun called the New Englander. It came in .45, , .50, .54, and 12 gauge (smoothbore, with and without removeable chokes). The Greyhawk is another one made with round barrels, and it was made of stainless steel. I recently became aware of called the High Plains Sporter, which was basically a New Englander with a pistol grip incorporated into the stock. New Englanders generally don't go for top dollar in today's market.

So, if you want a round barrel, that is an option. You could just buy the gun and use it as it is, or make the stock you want and fit the relevant parts. If you take the first option, you'd be saving hundreds, and as I and others will attest, the New Englander, though not their top of the line gun, IS quite serviceable, as a rifle or a shotgun.

I suppose you could draw-file an octagon barrel round, but that seems like too much work to me.

 

[Brokennock]

Not sure you will find a round rifled barrel. But shouldn't be too hard to find a round smoothbore.
Maybe @dave_person will know. Brown Bess and some fowling piece guns would require a round barrel to build and those are his forte.

 

[mikesto44]

Check with Ken Knetting. He makes a lot of round barrels and any length.

 

[Rob M.]

Was just gonna say....Call Ken Netting . he makes great barrels and only round ones . When I get one from him I have to grind the flats on ....

 

[George Andrix]

Oregon Barrel Co. advertises both round and tapered round barrels. I have only one of there barrels (not round) but it is a very good barrel. Their barrels are sold through The Gun Works. [www.thegunworks.com]