Experience unmatched precision with the SHILEN Contour #2 Barrel
The CONTOUR #2 by SHILEN is crafted with the utmost care and precision, ensuring that your firearm achieves the highest level of accuracy. This barrel is available in both Chrome Moly and Stainless Steel, catering to your specific needs.
Product Description
All the loving care of the best stockmaker and the meticulous attention to detail of the master machinist will not make a gun shoot any straighter than the accuracy capability of the barrel used. It is the insides of a barrel, that very small and vital area of lands and grooves over which the gunsmith has no control, that can determine whether the finished work of art is for shooting - or “just for looks.” Craftsmanship, not price, determines the quality of a barrel.
However, a customer willing to invest in a custom gun is shortsighted if they economize and order “just any old barrel so long as it’s cheap.” Such a request jeopardizes your reputation as a gun builder. As your supplier, we are laying our reputation (and yours, too!) on the line by offering you barrel blanks. They have got to be good, or we are in trouble! Big trouble!
We must never sell you anything but that which will enhance your stature within your trade. We believe that the Brownell Barrel, made for us by Ed Shilen, will do just that! Shilen barrels, either chrome moly or stainless steel, are rifled with six lands and grooves by the “Cold Forming” process using carbide dies made in Shilen’s own plant under the most rigid controls. This rifling method achieves extremely close inside uniformity from breech to muzzle.
Finished barrels are air-gauge inspected (with air-gauged sensitivity of .00005" - five-one-hundred-thousandths!) and are also 6X borescope inspected. All barrels, from .22 through .30 caliber, have groove tolerances within .0005" and uniformity within .0003". No straightening is done, and all barrels are completely stress-relieved. All stainless steel barrels are hand lapped at the factory.
Only those barrels passing all spec tests are offered to the trade. Any barrel even slightly “suspect” is restarted through the production process and bored to a larger caliber. In no other way can quality and reputation be maintained. While they may be slightly more expensive to produce, they offer vastly greater quality and ultimate performance.
Specifications
- Material: 4140 chrome-moly or 416 Stainless Steel
- Metric: 1" (2.5cm)
- Weight: 1 lb. (.45kg)
Special Orders
If no Stock # is shown in the chart, that barrel must be ordered on a Special Order basis. Special Orders require full payment in advance and are non-cancelable and non-refundable. Please allow 8-10 weeks for delivery. Note that items are not shipped prepaid.