Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Custom Rifles & Wildcats Thoughts on octagon barrels.

Terry, who did the integral bases on the Springfield for you?

"Find on old guild rifle"? For 250.00. Man that's been awhile.

I have several and thought about it. But I don't think it will work from a Mauser tenon and thread to a Springfield and putting a liner for a .22rf. I am not going to tear apart a fine old rifle for a sacrificial barrel. But I did think about it, a lot.

I even considered having a cnc program written for it and doing it on a mill. The cost for that gets scary.

The other thing I like, is the swivel on the barrel mount milled into the barrel, not silver soldered on.

All in All, I think the Lothar Walther barrels are a deal, I guy just needs to save his milk money a little longer. The other option, sell some of he stuff that never sees the light of day.

With a wedding band added at the transition, well for me, it just doesn't get better than that. Vary rare to find any rifle like that.

A fellow named David Christman did those. He's an amazing gunsmith.

That's a 1936 Mexican smallring M98. Notice the huge gas hole on the left side of the receiver isn't there anymore!

Terry

That's magnificent!!
Amen on David Christman. He's the best kept secret of outstanding gunsmithing today!

Don

lilja & wind river will do octagons a lot cheaper than most of the other barrel makers. lilja charges an extra $165 & wind river's octagon barrels start at $325 installed. i have a wind river 6.5x55 on a rifle & a lilja octagon blank that i got dirt cheap thats waiting on the right project. the the finish on the flats is actually better on the cheaper wind river than the lilja but i would imagine the barrel quality on the lilja is better because i don't think wind river could do their barrels at that price if they used a premium barrel blank.

i also agree with new guy on the shanks, i like them short & i've seen way to many of them about 1" long that i think ruiend the look of the rifle

Just a little too square.

I bought one Wind River blank before they moved south. For the money they are decent blanks. Just don't put your Hawkeye bore scope down the bore and you won't feel bad about the barrel.

On the other hand I have barrels from Lilja (in the dozens) and every one looks as clean, reamer marks free as any top barrel maker.

But if you want to put your money in the vary best then go with a blank from Boughton barrels. Lots of folks will mill your blank for Octagonal, cheaper than Lilja. A guy that does more octagonal barrel mounting than anyone else, is John King.

Here is a light countour 7x57 I think it looks nice.



Obviously a work in progress

Michael J

... and a stunning one at that!

WOW.

Green with envy.