chopper barrels

19 January 2007, 03:48

bruce bowen

chopper barrels

we are thinking about manufacturing best quality chopper lump rifle barrels. we could put them together, digitize the lumps on your existing barrels and cut the lumps on the new barrels with our wire edm machine so that a minimum amount of fitting is required. i am in the process of doing this on my webley 500 3in. the right barrel burst about 4 inches back from the muzzle using westley richards ammo with woodleigh bullets. it was prohibitive to have the rifle rebarreled in england and very difficult to get the new chopper tubes so we could do it here. this would make caliber changes or new barrels much easier. any interest? bruce bowen www.bbguns.net

19 January 2007, 04:20

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Bruce
I think there would be a lot of intrest.
A lot of guys might like to have a set of smaller bbls fitted to their 40cal and up doubles.

19 January 2007, 04:26

Doc52

Bruce,
Sounds good to me!

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19 January 2007, 06:34

Palmer

Interesting to me also.

Any guess as to the price yet?

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19 January 2007, 07:17

lee440

Ditto for me also!

19 January 2007, 07:34

Mike Brooks

Would it also work to do them for jones underlevered rifles?

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19 January 2007, 07:56

JPK

I'm very interested.

Repeat on the 'bout how much? question.

JPK

19 January 2007, 09:01

MacD37

You can count me in on that deal as well! I have several doubles I'd like extra barrels for!

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19 January 2007, 12:05

Rusty

Ditto!

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20 January 2007, 08:23

tomo577

sure would appreciate some idea of cost pls.

hope this isn't going to turn out to be another $700.00 remington spartan double rifle deal !

20 January 2007, 09:49

Bill74

I would be interested as well!

20 January 2007, 13:09

Grandpasez

If you could make alloy barrels for big doubles
so we could put 12GA FH, 577NE,600NE,
700NE, etc on 10ga Zabala, etc
frames there would be a market.If you could make long alloy 12ga rifled barrels with pivot
for NEF Ultra slug guns another market.Ed

20 January 2007, 19:18

bruce bowen

i don't know what the cost will be. it is too early in the project. keep in mind that i am not going to offer complete chopper barrels but rather a pair of choppers that are soldered together and the lumps cut to close fit for an existing action. i do not want to get into regulation, ribs and sights, etc. keep in mind as well that new barrels in england or europe at over $20,000 which is more that many rifles are worth. if i were to make a guess i would say in the $5000 range. you would then have to have someone do the rest of the work.

thanks for your interest. bruce bowen