DHE barrels

[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.

[Bill Murphy]

Who is this gunsmith who has had your gun for almost two years without telling you what he is doing to it?

[Jeff Elder]

Originally Posted by Bill Murphy

Who is this gunsmith who has had your gun for almost two years without telling you what he is doing to it?

Turnbull, he has told me what they are doing, the problem is he said the barrel is thin. NowI’m trying to remember if it’s o or oo. I have a repro barrel and if I’m lucky and it’s oo my next quest is to either find a forearm with ejectors or turn the repro barrel into extractors. He didn’t mention anything in a way of a fix for barrel. I know from what I gathered from email that it’s thin in the chambers which makes me wonder if a chamber sleeve might fix it

[Dean Romig]

Originally Posted by Jeff Elder

Turnbull, he has told me what they are doing, the problem is he said the barrel is thin. NowI’m trying to remember if it’s o or oo. I have a repro barrel and if I’m lucky and it’s oo my next quest is to either find a forearm with ejectors or turn the repro barrel into extractors. He didn’t mention anything in a way of a fix for barrel. I know from what I gathered from email that it’s thin in the chambers which makes me wonder if a chamber sleeve might fix it

What he's saying is that the width ecross the breech end of the barrels is too narrow (not thin) to properly mate with the width of the breech face of the frame.





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[edgarspencer]

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.

His original gun is an extractor gun, so there's no need to remove any trip pins, because there aren't any. Since he's talking about making the repro barrels into extractor barrels, there's no need to replacce the joint roll.

Originally Posted by Dean Romig

What he's saying is that the width ecross the breech end of the barrels is too narrow (not thin) to properly mate with the width of the breech face of the frame.

Jeff has already said the gun is a 00 frame. That said, the joint between the 00 repro barrels and the 00 frame is not a guarantee of a smooth joint. Repros may have a consistent bolster width, but original Parker bolster widths vary.