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Mark Serbu Shows How to Make a DIY Rifled Barrel

Posted September 13, 2017 in Daily News, Other Gear & Gadgets by Hrachya H with 38 Comments

Mark Serbu of Serbu Firearms has released a video showing that making a rifled barrel in home shop conditions and with corresponding tools is possible. Using a drill press to drill the bore, a hand drill to ream the bore and a bench vise to push the rifling button [Read More…]

DIY barrel rifling using salt water, electricity and a 3D printed jig

Posted March 2, 2017 in Guns & Gear by ImproGuns with 38 Comments

Here are pictures of a preliminary setup for creating rifling grooves in a piece of steel tubing by using a 3D printed spiral insert, lots of salt water and a battery charger. Electrochemical Machining is a process whereby metal is removed by passing an electrical [Read More…]

Sabatti’s Multi-Radial Rifling

Posted February 6, 2017 in Daily News, Rifles by Hrachya H with 41 Comments

Multi-Radial Rifling (MRR) is a special rifling type, which unlike conventional rifling doesn’t have sharp edges. This rifling is described as being made of two different alternating radiuses. Although it is not the polygonal rifling (most notably seen in Glock [Read More…]

Ballistics 101: What Is Rifling?

Posted June 24, 2016 in Daily News, Guns & Gear, Other Gear & Gadgets, Pistols, Rifles by Nathaniel F with 9 Comments

Previously in our introductory series on ballistics, we’ve discussed the concept of caliber, as well as ballistic coefficient and its close relative form factor. Today, we’re going to look at the concept of rifling, and how it relates to bullet stability. [Read More…]

DIY Barrel Rifling Tool 2.0

Posted June 23, 2016 in Guns & Gear, Other Gear & Gadgets, Pistols, Rifles, Shooting Accessories by Nicholas C with 31 Comments

Last August I posted an article about Clinton Westwood’s DIY barrel rifling tool. Well he has updated it and motorized it. He used an old bicycle for parts and re-purposed it to drive the rifling tool. It acts as a differential. One side has the barrel twist rate [Read More…]

DIY Barrel Rifling Tool

Posted August 17, 2015 in Guns & Gear, Other Gear & Gadgets by Nicholas C with 18 Comments

Hat tip to Bryan S. for sharing this with me. Here is a guy who made his own barrel rifling tool with some components he had lying around. It is rather clever how he does it. Here is the fruit of his labor.

Seen at the Gunsmithing Shop: Everyone Makes Mistakes

Posted February 5, 2013 in Pistols by Michael Branson with 27 Comments

The indoor shooting range at Douglas County Firearms provides my gunsmithing department with a steady stream of problems needing to be addressed. 90 percent of reliability problems are due to guns being too dirty and too dry. 90 percent of accuracy problems are due to [Read More…]

Which Rifle Barrel Manufacturing Method Is Best?

Posted May 31, 2011 in Shooting Accessories by Andrew Tuohy with 3 Comments

In order to find out which method of rifle barrel manufacturing was best, I interviewed Jochen Anschutz (president of Anschutz) and Woody Woodall (president of Lothar-Walther). I found it interesting that although Mr. Woodall stated that all three of the major methods [Read More…]

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