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| < 16ga. Guns ~ comments on shooting a bulged barrel..... |
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Tue Jan 23, 2007 6:37 pm
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....I have a single barrelled gun that has a bulge in it..... my old gunsmith of days of yore told me "no problem, it's OK....." when I bulged a 16ga Model 12 with a faulty reload (likely an underpowdered cartridge's wad stuck in the bbl., followed by a full charge), but it was so ugly, I bought a 26" I C barrel from Numrich (remember them, guys?) and had it refitted for the bulger ( which was a 28" MOD bbl)...... the bulge in question is towards the breech end of the barrel, where there's nearly 100 thou of thickness.....any metallurgical advice??
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Tue Jan 23, 2007 7:20 pm
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DO NOT SHOOT IT------Place it near your bench as a reminder  |
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Tue Jan 23, 2007 7:27 pm
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| hoashooter wrote: |
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DO NOT SHOOT IT------Place it near your bench as a reminder
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well, rats,
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Tue Jan 23, 2007 9:41 pm
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Or sell it on ebay as a "rare" barrel-----probably get 500 bucks for it and you could buy another barrel that is safe to shoot  |
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Tue Jan 23, 2007 10:56 pm
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| rare like no barrel has ever bulged in exactly that spot before....maybe iIcould even get a grand!! |
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Thu Jan 25, 2007 4:23 pm
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Metallurgically speaking, a basic example of steel is dry spagetti. Steel grain in a natural state is relaxed (spagetti tossed around), when stressed by drawing through a die or in this case bulging, these spagetti strands or "grain structure" aligns making for a more brittle area. Now that everyone is asleep  - sell it on Ebay - I saw a 16 gauge barrel the other day that said rusted and pitted inside and out - bad really bad. Granted, nobody would even bid a penny for it, but folks will buy anything. |
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Thu Jan 25, 2007 6:55 pm
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Metallurgically speaking, a basic example of steel is dry spagetti. Steel grain in a natural state is relaxed (spagetti tossed around), when stressed by drawing through a die or in this case bulging, these spagetti strands or "grain structure" aligns making for a more brittle area. Now that everyone is asleep - sell it on Ebay - I saw a 16 gauge barrel the other day that said rusted and pitted inside and out - bad really bad. Granted, nobody would even bid a penny for it, but folks will buy anything.
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t'ank'ee kindly,
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