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Picked up a couple of barrels yesterday, Darren got his new etching machine a while ago. Must say it is much better than stamping



Haven't had one of those for a long time



Spare one of these, just in case

You mean like this?




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I suppose so.

And stop looking for my boot and scope cover. Found them


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trevort wrote: ↑Sun Jul 16, 2017 6:09 pm And stop looking for my boot and scope cover. Found them


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Now you tell me, guess you owe me 5 hours and a two hundred km round trip.

This is the gunsmith in Wagga mate or the one in Griffith? I am going to put together a 20 prac or 20-222 and just throttle back the loads a bit for what I want, much easier to put together than a 20 vartarg on my action! Looks tidy too, Leeroy did a fantastic job on my 223 barrel with the stamping or etching, or whatever you want to call it.

Griffith,

got me buggered why you just don't throttle back the 223, if that's what you are going to try do with a 20 or 17.

Camel wrote: ↑Sun Jul 16, 2017 7:01 pm Griffith,

got me buggered why you just don't throttle back the 223, if that's what you are going to try do with a 20 or 17.

Hate the light barrel Mark, if it was heavier, I'd be happy to do exactly that, its good for the quad, but I do basically no shooting from one now. I find it really difficult to shoot well out of a ute compared to my brothers Kimber which has a light varmint finished at 25'.

The etching gives them a far more pleasing look compared to stamping.

Camel wrote: ↑Sun Jul 16, 2017 1:21 pm Picked up a couple of barrels yesterday, Darren got his new etching machine a while ago. Must say it is much better than stamping

Haven't had one of those for a long time

Spare one of these, just in case

Now what happens if that spare barrel 'decides' to be rechambered to suit something else, because you never used it and they remembered/discovered in your collection?

Gnome wrote: ↑Sun Jul 16, 2017 8:32 pm The etching gives them a far more pleasing look compared to stamping.

Agreed!

I'm sure there's someone who'll suggest that stamping moves the metal around too much and thus stresses the barrel. Consider how some ex-military rifles contain more enough stamps to keep an AusPost employee busy for the day (upset someone when I pointed out his "100%, all original, just like the war, matching numbers" SMLE had a new barrel it - not that it really mattered being a factory refurb).

On a side issue: A few people here will be aware of all the computer wizardry that goes into the design parts these days (eg. Catia, Pro-Engineer etc). I wonder how many of those 'models' take into account the stresses of stamping lettering into things? Seriously, I saw an 'optimised' 3D CAD drawing that looked like spaghetti holding critical components together THEN in production stamped the crap out of it. Surprised the part survived manufacture.












Did anyone see what I did there?

The Raven wrote: ↑Sun Jul 16, 2017 8:58 pm

Camel wrote: ↑Sun Jul 16, 2017 1:21 pm Picked up a couple of barrels yesterday, Darren got his new etching machine a while ago. Must say it is much better than stamping

Haven't had one of those for a long time

Spare one of these, just in case

Now what happens if that spare barrel 'decides' to be rechambered to suit something else, because you never used it and they remembered/discovered in your collection?

It'll never happen, I would sooner bend it round a stump.

Camel wrote: ↑Sun Jul 16, 2017 9:26 pm

The Raven wrote: ↑Sun Jul 16, 2017 8:58 pm

Camel wrote: ↑Sun Jul 16, 2017 1:21 pm Picked up a couple of barrels yesterday, Darren got his new etching machine a while ago. Must say it is much better than stamping

Haven't had one of those for a long time

Spare one of these, just in case

Now what happens if that spare barrel 'decides' to be rechambered to suit something else, because you never used it and they remembered/discovered in your collection?

It'll never happen, I would sooner bend it round a stump.

Missed do you have a suitable tree stump ready? I suspect its only a matter of time.....

kickinback wrote: ↑Sun Jul 16, 2017 4:21 pm You mean like this?




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I like that etching. ,

Bruce

B4408 wrote: ↑Mon Jul 17, 2017 5:39 am

kickinback wrote: ↑Sun Jul 16, 2017 4:21 pm You mean like this?




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I like that etching. ,

Bruce

Be a bloody sad day if you didn't.