Cut and crown a barrel at home?

[jonas302]

I did one exactly like Wolfer a bubbaed mauser with no rifling I cut back 6 inches trying to find a little better rifling cut with hacksaw filed strait crowned with a carriage bolt and valve grinding compound it shoots good and a lot better than it did before someday it will get a new barrel just couldn't right now

Lets not fool ourselfs f that just because a tool is sold it is automatically better or more accurate there was a time when craftsman built things with what they had and quality did not suffer

[nanuk]

on another forum, a fellow did a comparison by damaging the crown on a rifle, a bit at a time....

read it Here!

an interesting experiment to dispell some myths.

[doc1876]

not to give swheeler too much credit, but that is almost what I did. No really, I used a hack saw, and cleaned it up with a file, and then "crowned" it with a counter sink and then polished it with lapping compound. It is what I wanted, and shoots clean. the trigger guard "adjustment" helps to keep it right where you want it in a front pocket, just don't try to spin it!