battered after years of abuse, moved to the Remy and I imagine will remain there. (I always say that!) Although a sturdy bit of kit and optically superb, the Burris is light on elevation adjustment (~50-MOA) and has small adjustment turrets and fine markings, so much so that my 60 plus year old eyes almost need a magnifying glass to read or change settings – not ideal for long range F or similar, but an excellent choice here.
MINI PROJECT RIFLE
REMINGTON 700 SPS TACTICAL by Laurie Holland
Every centrefire rifle barrel starts out as a ‘blank’ a solid cylinder-shape rod of high grade stainless or chrome-moly steel made to the barrel maker’s specification and, in other manufacturing methods, a little over the desired finished barrel length.
The barrel has been given a superbly machined set of deep flutes and an attractive black finish. Properly Hammered
Moving onto the new barrel, it was made by the hammer-forging process, that is used on the vast majority of tubes on factory rifles used in the world’s deer woods, prairie dog fields and in nearly all of the gazillions of pistols, revolvers, military rifles and machineguns out there. Despite this, ever since our last two volume rifle manufacturers - BSA and Parker- Hale - passed into the loving embrace of the Official Receiver many years ago, you’d be most unlikely to find a hammer-forged barrel fitted onto any non- military rifle made in the UK... until now.
After many vicissitudes, Armalon’s Peter Sarony has got the former P-H barrel-making machines up and running in Oxfordshire, fully modernised and in a CNC equipped workshop to undertake every job involved in making, profiling, fluting, chambering and fitting barrels. The company also manufactures other shooting related components and accessories as well as offering gunsmithing and rifle building services.
However, some readers might wonder just what hammer forging entails and how it differs from other forms of rifling and barrel manufacture.
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Traditionally, the blank was bored through with a special bore drill or reamer, then had a cutting device pulled through the resulting hole (or bore) umpteen
The right barrel side is hard up against the stock channel - to be rectified.
times to machine the rifling grooves into the bore surface, the blank being rotated meanwhile to impart the desired degree of rifling pitch or twist rate. This was the slowest and most expensive part of making a modern firearm and required very large, heavy and complex rifling machines. This method is still used by Krieger, Bartlein and Border Barrels often on machines dating from the middle of the last century or earlier since nobody has made any since. The form such precision barrelmakers use is called the single-point rifling method as the cutting tool
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