Precision and Quality in Every Barrel
The CONTOUR #2 by SHILEN is crafted with the utmost care, ensuring that you receive a barrel that meets the highest standards of accuracy and performance.
Product Overview
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 Matters
Craftsmanship, not price, determines the quality of a barrel. A customer willing to invest in a custom gun should not compromise by ordering “just any old barrel so long as it’s cheap”. Such a request jeopardizes your reputation as a gun builder, and we, as your supplier, 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!
Quality Assurance
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 (air-gauged sensitivity is .00005" - five-one-hundred-thousandths!)
- 6X borescope inspected
- All barrels, .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 started through the production process again and bored to a large caliber. In no other way can quality and reputation be maintained.
Specifications
Material: 4140 chrome-moly or 416 Stainless Steel
Metric: 1" (2.5cm), 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. Allow 8-10 weeks for delivery. Not shipped prepaid.
Invest in the SHILEN CONTOUR #2 barrel today and enhance your reputation as a master gunsmith with a product that guarantees quality and performance.