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Bill Murphy 12-09-2024 11:14 AM

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.

edgarspencer 12-09-2024 11:18 AM

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.

Jeff Elder 12-09-2024 03:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Bill Murphy (Post 420964)
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 12-10-2024 10:19 AM

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

Dean Romig 12-10-2024 01:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Jeff Elder (Post 420982)
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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Brian Dudley 12-11-2024 07:27 AM

That thickness at the end of the barrels is perfectly normal.

Bill Murphy 12-11-2024 11:07 AM

Yup, normal, and I'm sure Turnbull mentioned it because it was the thinnest section of the barrels. I would buy that gun.

Jeff Elder 12-11-2024 07:39 PM

I hope so Bill. I wondered why they didn’t give me the chamber measurements. They said will not be able to strike out remnants or bore polish due to remaining wall thickness

Dean Romig 12-12-2024 06:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Jeff Elder (Post 421099)
I hope so Bill. I wondered why they didn’t give me the chamber measurements. They said will not be able to strike out remnants or bore polish due to remaining wall thickness


I wonder as well… that juncture I mentioned is the most critical measurement on a set of barrels that have been “polished” or had other work done on them.





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