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Wondering if a stainless 50cal muzzleloader barrel could be turned down for a barrel liner to put in a heavy octagon barrel?

You'd need a grinder and two lifetimes of luck and patience. If installing on a classic, you destroyed the classic, if installing on an average rig, you can buy a new tube for a couple hundred bux and be in business and probably better results.

I don't think a Lyman deerstalker is very classic.
Lyman is having a recall due to breech plugs. I doubt I'll find a new barrel soon.
I'd like a stainless liner just because it's black powder and less likely to rust. I've switched over to real black powder.

Robert (Bobby) Hoyt is who you want to ask.

Freischutz Gun Shop
2379 Mt Hope Rd
Fairfield, Pennsylvania 17320
(717) 642-6696

sounds like a job

Yeah, talk to Bobby Hoyt for the definitive answer about doing this, but I can guess what his answer will be.

If avoidance of cleaning is your goal, remember that you still gotta clean the barrel exterior and lock area - not to mention the bottom of the lined bore (breech face) not covered by the liner. (One of the biggest sources of angst with old ML'ers is how much rust has penetrated into the threads of the breech plug. It's why many an old gun was relegated to wall-hanger status when their breech plugs were pulled for inspection, something every reputable restorer will do as a matter of course.) Since you're gonna clean all that stuff anyway what's the point in not cleaning the bore too? Besides, it's "stain less" steel not "perfectly 100% impervious to rusting under extreme conditions (such as leaving BP fouling crudded up on it) steel".