Barrel rifling

[Haney]

Don't get too hung up on this. Most builders (myself included) may have preferences that work slightly better with our particular setups.....but by no means are we putting out substandard work otherwise. As pointed out here, there are many more influential variables that can be (and should be) chased instead.

Ern

You nailed it, experience is the best teacher.

 

[Terry Cross]

Don't get too hung up on this. Most builders (myself included) may have preferences that work slightly better with our particular setups.....but by no means are we putting out substandard work otherwise. As pointed out here, there are many more influential variables that can be (and should be) chased instead.

Ern

Agreed.

In my opinion reamers cutting chambers that have a tapered body and angled shoulder will be stabilized by those tapers while cutting under load to a degree far exceeding any theoretical bounce or vibration caused by flute count vs groove count.

 

[high right]

Boots was cool to talk to! If you got him started... don't hang up the phone!

Him and Jim were very tight! Jim ran RCLRC range back in the 80's and 90's. Boots made his barrels and did the install work etc... for Jim most of the time. A few guys convinced Jim to start teaching classes for hi power shooting to help new shooters coming into the sport. I'm happy to say I was in on the 2nd class he did and took a few more after that. You always learned/came away with some new knowledge. I'd say Jim was right in the regards it probably cut 3-5 years off of a new shooters learning curve. During the course of the classes Jim also got a gun builder or two (custom smiths) and go over builds etc... and then in another class usually Boots or John Krieger came in and talked about barrels.

Boots was as good of a barrel maker as he was a gunsmith (that's how it started for them... his family owned a gun store in Racine....and then he went to gunsmithing school and then shortly after that he got some equipment and started making barrels) as well as he was an excellent hi power shooter. Pulling his targets was pretty cool to say the least. Talk about a guy who could just pound the center of the target with iron sights let alone a scope. One of the matches I was at and if I recall correctly he won it as well... he laughed after the match and someone asked what was so funny? He said he just realized he grabbed the wrong ammo....he brought his culls/practice ammo to the match instead of his match ammo! Like I said... the guy could shoot also!

Later, Frank

You ever run into a guy named Mark Chanlynn when at Boots?