DHE barrels

[Jeff Elder]

Can a DHE barrel be turned into a DH?

I’m asking this because I bought a repro 28 barrel to put on my VH 28. The VH was my great grandfathers, it’s been at Turnbull being redone and they said the chamber walls are thin. If not I have a repro 28 I could swap forearms with but it would be simpler if I didn’t have to. I want to use this barrel for everyday shooting and use the original with some light loads once or twice a year, like opening day dove and a quail hunt or two.

Thank you

[Aaron Beck]

Did Turnbull not want to do this work for you? Is the original gun a 0 frame?

[Jeff Elder]

Originally Posted by Aaron Beck

Did Turnbull not want to do this work for you? Is the original gun a 0 frame?

Just got word from them about the same time I found these barrels. I shoot sporting clays weekly and had thought about getting another barrel anyway. What do you know about chamber sleeves? Not full barrel. I saw the Briley offers that.

[edgarspencer]

The short answer is yes, the repro barrels can be altered to be extracotor. But, as Aaron asked, is your Great grandfathers gun an 0 frame 28? That would put the brakes on any possibility of using them. What, or where, specifically, did Turnbull indicate the chambers measure thin? Were the chambers lengthened? If the gun is an 0 frame, there's still a fair bit of meat in the wall at the beginning of the 'new' forcing cone. Don't roll over and play dead just yet.

[Bill Murphy]

I don't know how you would get a 0 frame 28 to have thin chamber walls. Must be a 00 frame.

[Jeff Elder]

Originally Posted by edgarspencer

The short answer is yes, the repro barrels can be altered to be extracotor. But, as Aaron asked, is your Great grandfathers gun an 0 frame 28? That would put the brakes on any possibility of using them. What, or where, specifically, did Turnbull indicate the chambers measure thin? Were the chambers lengthened? If the gun is an 0 frame, there's still a fair bit of meat in the wall at the beginning of the 'new' forcing cone. Don't roll over and play dead just yet.

I had that gun about a month before I shipped it off in January of 2023. I was so excited to finally get it by sheer stupidity on my part I paid no attention to frame size. I just wanted to be able to shoot it. I did get it’s research letter. 28 inch barrel and weighs 5 1/2 lbs. would that put it in 00 range? I can’t remember if it had the lightning strikes.

[B. Dudley]

It can. But a new extractor would need to be made. Or some modifications be made. And the roll joint needs to be changed, as well as the trips removed. It is not an super easy ordeal, but it can happen.

[Jeff Elder]

Originally Posted by Brian Dudley

It can. But a new extractor would need to be made. Or some modifications be made. And the roll joint needs to be changed, as well as the trips removed. It is not an super easy ordeal, but it can happen.

Thank you for that info. Not as easy as I thought. Think I’ll use my repro forearm