Discover the precision of Shilen Contour Barrels for your custom firearms.
Introducing the CONTOUR #7, 8 & 9 BARREL by SHILEN, available in both Chrome Moly and Stainless Steel. These barrels are crafted with the utmost care and attention to detail, ensuring unparalleled accuracy for your shooting needs.
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—the 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 by ordering “just any old barrel so long as it’s cheap.” Such requests jeopardize the reputation of gun builders. As your supplier, we stake our reputation (and yours too!) on the quality of our barrel blanks.
We believe that the Brownell Barrel, made for us by Ed Shilen, will enhance your stature within the trade. 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 method achieves extremely close inside uniformity from breech to muzzle.
Quality Assurance
- Finished barrels are air-gauge inspected with a sensitivity of .00005" (five-one-hundred-thousandths!)
- 6X borescope inspected.
- All barrels, from .22 through .30 caliber, have groove tolerances within .0005" and uniformity within .0003".
- No straightening is done; 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 reprocessed and bored to a larger caliber. This rigorous quality control is essential to maintaining our reputation.
While slightly more expensive to produce, Shilen barrels deliver vastly superior 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.