I won't speak for all barrel makers here....
I'll say we always strive for a uniformity of the bore over the length of the barrel. I'll say yes we are lapping some choke into the bores of the barrels.
That being said and I've gotten into it pretty good with the BR guys. I ask this... why the hell are you buying a 29" blank and your cutting it to 21" to 22" installed? If there is choke lapped into the barrel I'll guarantee your cutting it off.
Get the barrels blank length closer to the finish length your going to end up at.... so if your going to finish the barrel at 24" get a 25" blank ( at least from us ) because if there is choked lapped into the bore of the barrel it's just in the last few inches and it might only be say .0001" to .0002" of choke.
Terry is correct.... and I'll say usually the end of the blank doesn't all of a sudden have .0005" of choke in it. Like he said... it's not like shotgun barrel. It's gradual over the last few/several inches. Again we still strive for a 0 uniformity of the length. So you could have choke... and you might not.
And here is a good one for you all.... lets say you grab this barrel made by so and so button maker for example.... you think you measured the bore and you found the choke/tight spot so that's where you decide to cut and crown the muzzle. Your odds are high that cutting and crowning the muzzle especially if you thread the muzzle also... the machining operation will relieve the stress in the material and the bore will open up on you. It happens more than you know. So what do you do then?
In the pic of a button rifled barrel... look how much that steel moved on the face of the one blank after the button went thru it. Button rifling doesn't remove the material... it displaces the material.
The attached video shows the same thing but he's measuring the barrels with a pin gage. The last two are ours. I know who's the other barrels are in the video and I'm not saying who but all button barrels. His argument in the video is to pick the largest thread size you can get away with to help prevent this happening.
This isn't a thing that happens with cut rifled barrels. In fact I just recently cut a 1/2-28 muzzle thread on a 9mm barrel and the muzzle o.d. was only .720" before threading. So a 1/2" muzzle thread on a .355" groove size barrel only leaves about a .182" wall thickness per side. My bore didn't go sour at all (open up).
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