Precision-engineered barrels for unmatched accuracy!
Introducing the UNTURNED 22 CALIBER BARRELS, SHILEN 22 CALIBER 1-12" TWIST UNTURNED BLANK CHROME MOLY BBL from SHILEN. Crafted with the utmost care and attention to detail, these barrels are designed to enhance the performance of your custom firearm.
Exceptional Craftsmanship
All the loving care of the best stock maker 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”.
Quality Over Price
Craftsmanship, not price, determines the quality of a barrel. A customer willing to spend the money for a custom gun is shortsighted indeed if they start economizing and order “just any old barrel so long as it’s cheap.” Such requests jeopardize your reputation as a gun builder.
Our Commitment
As your supplier, we are laying our reputation (and yours, too!) on the line by offering you barrel blanks. They must be good or we are in trouble! We must never sell you anything but that which will enlarge your stature with your trade. We feel that the Brownells Barrel, made for us by Ed Shilen, will do just that!
Advanced Manufacturing
- 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!) and 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.
Quality Assurance
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. Slightly more expensive to produce, but vastly greater in quality and ultimate performance.