Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Ask The Gunwriters Best way to cut a barrel off...DIY

John,

You're probably right. The Husky project I posted earlier turned out great. I don't see how that rifle with factory barrel could shoot any better, regardless how the cut and crown were executed.

DF

I'm not picturing exactly what kind of brass screw we're talking about???

Philips head screw might be better but this gives you an idea. Just be sure it's a round head screw.

Thank you!

I think the slot head works as well as it does because the compound seems to migrate out of the slot as it turns.

Either way, it works very well.
Ted

Absent a lathe, if you can swing it the Manson crowning tool works really well.

For .308 and .357, a 1/4"-20 brass round head machine screw works.

I have counterbored beat up muzzles with a reamer .50 to .100 bigger than the groove diameter and up to .750 deep with very good results.

Done what Aalf n Mule Deer has done, worked great, later had a smith clean up for cosmetic reasons. When you cannot be happy with a barrel that is too long for your purpose, you will wonder what took you so long to shorten it.

Likewise, if you suspect or KNOW your crown is bad, cleaning up with a chamfer tool and/or the brass screw method can do alot of good.

What Yukoner said, is what I did, plug the bore near muzzle end to keep debris out the bore. Cleaning patch can work, push thru when done, and a few more from chamber end only.

It seems to me that I read on the 'Fire that anyone who would shorten a barrel without a lathe was a Bubba, who probably didn't have two teeth to rub together! I have cut off several and crowned them using a brass screw; they never seemed to suffer from the "Bubba" treatment.