Precision-engineered for unparalleled accuracy and craftsmanship
The CONTOUR #2 barrel by SHILEN is available in both Chrome Moly and Stainless Steel, designed to meet the highest standards of performance and reliability.
Product Features
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. A customer willing to invest in a custom gun should not compromise on the quality by ordering “just any old barrel so long as it’s cheap”. Such a request jeopardizes your reputation as a gun builder. We, as your supplier, are laying our reputation (and yours, too!) on the line by offering you barrel blanks that must be good or we face serious consequences!
Manufacturing Excellence
Shilen barrels, either chrome moly or stainless, 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, and 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 larger caliber. In no other way can quality and reputation be maintained. While slightly more expensive to produce, the quality and ultimate performance are vastly superior.
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.