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Worn barrels: resell or recycle?
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<blockquote data-quote="Hugnot" data-source="post: 2285884" data-attributes="member: 115658"><p>I don't have a lathe and setting a barrel back with a rechamber would take up a considerable cost of a new barrel. Bullets are expensive and paying for 10 or so boxes of bullets might equal the cost of a new barrel and the loss of potential accuracy using a worn barrel would defeat the extra money spent on premium bullets.</p><p></p><p>Facing these facts, I use my old barrels to pin rail road ties together to make retaining walls. The stainless barrels work best and after boring an appropriate size hole, the barrels, chamber side up, are driven in with a sledge hammer. Seems like a waste for a nice piece of work. I have not found a source that will re-bore my stainless barrels to bigger calibers, like .224 to .264 and there is the accuracy potential of a re-bore, and cost to cut rifle the barrel. I don't know if button rifling would work in a contoured chambered barrel.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hugnot, post: 2285884, member: 115658"] I don't have a lathe and setting a barrel back with a rechamber would take up a considerable cost of a new barrel. Bullets are expensive and paying for 10 or so boxes of bullets might equal the cost of a new barrel and the loss of potential accuracy using a worn barrel would defeat the extra money spent on premium bullets. Facing these facts, I use my old barrels to pin rail road ties together to make retaining walls. The stainless barrels work best and after boring an appropriate size hole, the barrels, chamber side up, are driven in with a sledge hammer. Seems like a waste for a nice piece of work. I have not found a source that will re-bore my stainless barrels to bigger calibers, like .224 to .264 and there is the accuracy potential of a re-bore, and cost to cut rifle the barrel. I don't know if button rifling would work in a contoured chambered barrel. [/QUOTE]
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