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New Lease on a Barrel's Life
« on: September 21, 2010, 05:39:41 PM »
My uncle (dad's brother) passed away back in March and he had a few guns that he mainly left to me and my youngest son, because we are the only shooter/gun people in the family. One of the guns was an Ithaca M-66 .410 single shot that opened with a lever. My dad wanted to keep it to shoot squirrels and crows in our pecan grove. Well, when he left my aunts house and went back over to his house with the gun on the seat of his golf cart, he forgot about the end of the barrel poking out over the end of the set. As he pulled under his garage, the barrel got caught on a support post and got bent around at about a 60 degree angle, starting at about the mid-point of the barrel. Man I was sick.....that was the first gun I ever hunted with, and the search for a new barrel has been fruitless over the last few months.
Well, I've done a lot of work on guns over the years, but I though it was hopeless and bent too badly to be fixed. Lo and behold, we have a former co-worker (and long-time family friend) that happens to be a gunsmith and works on many guns for area gun shops. My dad got a wild hair this morning and just for grins and giggles, took it down there to see if Buddy could do anything with it. He called this afternoon and said to come get it. Pop brought it over to the house a while ago and you can't tell it was ever bent. I don't know if he used a mandrel tool or what to fix it, but he did a jam-up job. Looks as good as new. Only cost $75, which is a steal compared to what a barrel must cost, if you could find one.
Anyway, ol' Peg is a happy camper today.

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Re: New Lease on a Barrel's Life
« Reply #1 on: September 21, 2010, 06:04:13 PM »
Fantastic Peg! I wondering how he fixed it? Maybe it was magic? We better ask M25.
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Re: New Lease on a Barrel's Life
« Reply #2 on: September 21, 2010, 06:14:57 PM »
Quote from: Johnny Bravo on September 21, 2010, 06:04:13 PM
Fantastic Peg! I wondering how he fixed it? Maybe it was magic? We better ask M25.

I know they make form-fitting mandrels to go inside the barrel for knocking out dents and such. I don't know if a internal mandrel could be used in combination with a hammer or press, or if he used a tube roller. He just lives a mile and a half down the road, so the next time I go that way, I'll stop and ask him.
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Re: New Lease on a Barrel's Life
« Reply #3 on: September 21, 2010, 06:26:28 PM »
Way cool!  And nice looking gun!
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Re: New Lease on a Barrel's Life
« Reply #4 on: September 21, 2010, 06:31:20 PM »
Thanks.
I have been searching and reading, and found that several companies make/made a hydraulic press with rollers that is used to regulate shotgun barrels that don't shoot point of aim.
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Re: New Lease on a Barrel's Life
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Re: New Lease on a Barrel's Life
« Reply #5 on: September 21, 2010, 06:36:49 PM »
I'm curious to hear how he did it.
Maybe a combination of a press for the actual straightening and the mandrel to check bore shape and to judge when its straight enough to check with precision gauges.
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Re: New Lease on a Barrel's Life
« Reply #6 on: September 21, 2010, 06:42:29 PM »
I think it was magic.  ;)
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Re: New Lease on a Barrel's Life
« Reply #7 on: September 21, 2010, 07:28:09 PM »
Quote from: jumbofrank on September 21, 2010, 06:42:29 PM
I think it was magic.  ;)

Peg will just have to inventory the local virgins  ;D
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Re: New Lease on a Barrel's Life
« Reply #8 on: September 21, 2010, 07:34:23 PM »
Quote from: tombogan03884 on September 21, 2010, 06:36:49 PM
I'm curious to hear how he did it.
Maybe a combination of a press for the actual straightening and the mandrel to check bore shape and to judge when its straight enough to check with precision gauges.

I don't know about the straightening methods, but the normally use a combo of epanding mandrills and rollers, fallowed by anvils and brass hammers to fix damaged barrels..  some times they rebored them some times not.
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Re: New Lease on a Barrel's Life
« Reply #9 on: September 21, 2010, 07:48:18 PM »
Must be more a shotgun thing.
Except for "in process at T/C ( used a dial indicator and a piece of pipe  ) I never heard of anyone doing more than tweaking on rifle barrels, other wise have it re barreled .
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