Thread: Making a Sharps Barrel in my lathe.

I am in awe of you! You have done what I have been wanting to do only I only wanted to re-bore shot out 303 barrels to 357. I was thinking of using the feed to drive the rifling cutter at a different speed to the chuck so as to achieve the rifling twist desired. Anyway, I didn't get that far. But you have inspired me and given me some ideas.

Regarding the question of whether your barrel would be safe with factory loads, I would say absolutely.

Are you planning on shooting only naked cast bullets or do you have paper patching in mind? There are folks shooting paper patched 45-70's with stunning accuracy at ridiculous ranges. Think 800 yds with all ten shots in the centre of the gong. The centre is a bit bigger than a tennis ball but still. I'm guessing about a meter diameter, maybe smaller.

Hi .303 guy, I suppose there`s a lot of ways of doing this , like a sine ways rifling bar, just have to look on the internet for ideas. I just got lucky with my gearbox and bike bits , and the end result is allways different to what you think, I was going for a twist of 1-18" and through I had it, but no it came out 1-20" so it will have to do. Now the barrel is cut octagonal and stopped short at the breech end so I could grind the tulip bit that the Sharps barrel has at the breech end . Now all I`v got to do is polish and clean her up and at this stage will get it heat treated , but after xmas, I`m having a holiday, cheers, Homebrew.357. , Octagonal done. , A raw Sharps Octagonal barrel, hope it shots strait.
, Grinding the tulip . , Bit of a polish should help.