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Walter Laich
02-20-2011, 10:24 PM
check out the choices down along the left side

http://firearmshistory.blogspot.com/2010/05/rifling-manufacturing-broach-rifling.html

303Guy
02-21-2011, 12:35 AM
Thanks for the link. One day I am going to buid a rifling cutter and open up a few 303 Brits to 375-303.

One day!:roll:

Actually, it'll be a lathe attachment using the lathe power feed system and a fitted gear drive to rotate the cutter while the chuck is locked steady.

Centaur 1
02-21-2011, 12:37 PM
Very cool site, thanks for sharing it.

DIRT Farmer
02-21-2011, 09:45 PM
303 guy, I have helped on a sine bar rifling bench, rifling muzzleloader barrels. I have wondered if a badly burned throat could be opened up on the typical cordite burned barrel. Any Ideas?

mroliver77
02-22-2011, 09:32 AM
I have seen pics of milsurps that had the chamber area cut out and a piece soldered in place of it. A new chamber with throat and a short bit of rifling were included. I rember wondering how they indexed the rifling of the insert to match the original so perfectly. Thinking on it I belive Dutchman might have posted these pics somewhere.
Jay

deltaenterprizes
02-22-2011, 10:41 AM
Great link, thanks for posting it!

Walter Laich
02-22-2011, 12:42 PM
I was surprised how quickly the barrels can be rifled--thought it took much longer

bbqncigars
02-24-2011, 10:12 PM
That was a link that deserved to be made into a long documentary (I can only dream).