Unmatched Precision for Your Custom Firearm
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, the customer willing to spend the money for a custom gun is shortsighted indeed if he starts economizing and orders “just any old barrel so long as it’s cheap”. Furthermore, he jeopardizes your reputation as a gun builder by making such a request. We, as your supplier, 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!
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!
Features of Shilen Barrels
- Rifled with six lands and grooves using the “Cold Forming” process.
- Manufactured under the most rigid controls with carbide dies made in Shilen’s own plant.
- Achieves extremely close inside uniformity from breech to muzzle.
- Finished barrels are air-gauge inspected with a sensitivity of .00005" - five-one-hundred-thousandths!
- 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.
- Hand lapped at the factory for all stainless steel barrels.
- 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. In no other way can quality and reputation be maintained. Slightly more expensive to produce - but vastly greater in quality and ultimate performance.