Unmatched Quality for Precision Firearms
Introducing the UNTURNED 35 CALIBER BARRELS from SHILEN, the pinnacle of craftsmanship in barrel manufacturing. Each barrel is designed with the utmost attention to detail, ensuring that your firearm achieves the highest level of accuracy.
Product Description
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”.
Craftsmanship . . . not price . . . determines the quality of a barrel. However, a customer willing to invest in a custom gun is shortsighted indeed if they economize 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 that must be of exceptional quality.
Our Brownells Barrel, crafted for us by Ed Shilen, is designed to enhance your stature within your trade. Shilen barrels, whether chrome moly or stainless, are rifled with six lands and grooves using the “Cold Forming” process and carbide dies made in Shilen’s own facility under the most rigid controls. This 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 for precision
- 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 started through the production process again and bored to a larger caliber. This is the only way to maintain quality and reputation. While slightly more expensive to produce, the resulting barrels are vastly superior in quality and ultimate performance.