To bend your barrel or not that is the question?

[martin9]

I just felt like posting a pic....this is the fowler I bent the barrel on today.....

 

[Kansas Jake]

Looks terrible! You ruined it!


Beautiful Fowler.

 

[martin9]

Ha! Thanks!

 

[Flint62Smoothie]

I've never understood why it's such a debate. Folks that haven't done it can write a small term paper on why it won't work.....folks that have just say "yep, works great"

Yup! Have been saying that here for YEARS myself! I soooooo wish we could get the nay-sayers to STOP posting about things they don’t know and/or haven’t done … LOL!

Here is an example setup, and is how I do it; this one here by Daryl. NOTE that even with the amount of the deflection shown, the barrel did NOT move one iota! It needed more bend to move the impact.

 

[French Colonial]

Yup! Have been saying that here for YEARS myself! I soooooo wish we could get the nay-sayers to STOP posting about things they don’t know and/or haven’t done … LOL!

Here is an example setup, and is how I do it; this one here by Daryl. NOTE that even with the amount of the deflection shown, the barrel did NOT move one iota! It needed more bend to move the impact.

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I soooooo wish we could get the nay-sayers to STOP posting about things they don’t know and/or haven’t done … LOL!
Amen brother, Amen.

 

[brazosland]

Not just the bending thing…but most factory barrels have some degree of Run-out also. Where the hole in the barrel is not perfectly centered.

They ID the run-out and make that the bottom of the barrel. That way you can correct for it with front sight height.

I was told the difference between standard and premium barrels with some makers is the premium tubes have no Run-out.

 

[Comfortably_Numb]

These days all of your swamped barrels are drilled first then planed and/or turned, eliminating run out altogether.

 

[brazosland]

These days all of your swamped barrels are drilled first then planed and/or turned, eliminating run out altogether.

Exactly. Run-out in a swamped barrel would be a very bad thing! So they do all that to avoid the run-out that they know will be there…