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I looked at the Westley Richards on Champlin's website some time back. It looks like the barrels are sleeved, even though they look like shoe lump construction. I don't think they were built from the ground up on the rebuild.

According to the description, it's a rebuilt gun - originally a .30-06. Must have been one huge .30-06.

I would have a hard time getting excited about those sleeved barrels.

Curl

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Curl,

The barrels need a trip to John Roberts in England or one of the good barrel guys here for TIG welding the seams. Then good buffing and a re-black with touched up engraving and you wouldn't know the barrels were sleeved. As it is, the seams just don't cut it, and attempting to hide them with that engraving is worse.

JPK

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JPK

Can you tell me how that would work please.

If one Tig'ed at that point on the barrel, one would have to anneal, normalise and reharden the barrels.
This would melt all of the soft solder and possibly the brazing between the chopper lumps depending on the melt/re-melt threshold.
This would require the whole barrel set needing to be remade.
To do less than that, especially if the replacments were 4140 as many are, would leave a big question mark regarding embrittlement and or a soft spot dependent on heat propagation.

Are you saying that this is a common practice ?

Regards

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