DHE barrels

[Bill Murphy]

I don't think we have heard the entire story.

[Jeff Elder]

Originally Posted by Bill Murphy

I don't think we have heard the entire story.

Bill I was hair on fire when they told me walls were thin and the guy at Turnbull him hawd on if i could still shoot her. Since I’ve calmed down after talking to several people giving them the wall thickness numbers I was told. It’s a 00 28 inch barrel 28 gauge my great grandfather bought in 1917 that was treated like a field hand by my great uncle who got it after my great grandfather died. I traded a set on horns that came off the first steer butchered at the Swift Ft Worth plant to my second cousin for her. I then sent her to Turnbull for a full restoration. Got her back a few days ago. New stock, forearm, dent taken out of barrel, re blued, re case hardened, internals fixed and some parts replaced. Looks like she did when my great grandfather ordered her from H&D Folsom arms co In 1917. Im her caretaker for the next 20 to 30 years then I will hand her off to my favorite nephew. I just would like to get the repro barrel on her now so I can just shoot the hell out of it at clays and or daily hunting, and put on original barrel for a dove shoot and a quail hunt a few times a year.

[Bill Murphy]

Why can't you "shoot the hell out of it" with the original barrels? Give us the real wall thickness in the vulnerable parts of the barrels, and we will tell you if it is reasonable.

[Jeff Elder]

Originally Posted by Bill Murphy

Why can't you "shoot the hell out of it" with the original barrels? Give us the real wall thickness in the vulnerable parts of the barrels, and we will tell you if it is reasonable.

Well I shoot every day, I don’t seem to get much better, but I live on a cow ranch so the clay machines are almost at my back door. Normally I shoot75 to 100 daily. The wall thickness I got back from Turnbull says .027 last 12 inches of barrels.

[Bill Murphy]

Nothing wrong with that as long as you have verified the .027.

[Dean Romig]

Originally Posted by Jeff Elder

Well I shoot every day, I don’t seem to get much better, but I live on a cow ranch so the clay machines are almost at my back door. Normally I shoot75 to 100 daily. The wall thickness I got back from Turnbull says .027 last 12 inches of barrels.

The critical section is the first 12 inches beginning at the juncture of the forcing cone with the bore and forward from there.





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[edgarspencer]

If it were me, I'd sell the repro barrels and save myself the expense of modifying them. Then take what you saved, and what you got for the barrels, and go out and buy another gun, repro or not, and shoot it like you would have if you'd fitted them to your grandfather's gun. Life is too short to sit and wait for another job to be completed.