Introducing the CONTOUR #3 BARREL by SHILEN – Precision Meets Craftsmanship
The CONTOUR #3 BARREL is available in both Chrome Moly and Stainless Steel, delivering exceptional accuracy and performance for discerning shooters.
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. The insides of a barrel—the very small and vital area of lands and grooves over which the gunsmith has no control—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 indeed if they start economizing and order “just any old barrel as 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!
Quality Assurance
We must never sell you anything but that which will enhance your stature with your trade. We believe that the Brownell Barrel, made for us by Ed Shilen, will do just that! Shilen barrels, whether chrome moly or stainless, are rifled with six lands and grooves using the “Cold Forming” process, employing 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 undergo air-gauge inspection (with a sensitivity of .00005" - five-one-hundred-thousandths!) and are subjected to 6X borescope inspection. 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.
Special Orders
- 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.
- Slightly more expensive to produce, but vastly greater in quality and ultimate performance.
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.