Where to buy barrels?

[1996XJ]

Im looking for a site that sells either a standard 12in J&J, or a 12in Lapco Autospirit.

My Microshot seems like its too small for the new paint, so im looking for something slightly smaller that the stock barrel so i dont have to run detents.

[Unimoose]

Try O'Dells in the market place or if you are Canadian try Horizon.

[Ed]

look at a palmer brass barrel too.

[splattttttt]

look at a palmer brass barrel too.

I secon/thirdly/quadroopley it.
A .685 (no wedgits) is all tou'll ever want. Best efficiency's at 10.1/2". No porting, by the time they hear it, they'll be calling them selfs out

[1996XJ]

My honed out microshot is probably about .685 and is giving me velocity problems.  Im looking for something a little larger but dont want rollouts like with the stock barrel.

[thkyle]

Why did you hone out the microshot?

Bad idea on an anodized barrel. Real bad idea to do that to one that comes straight from Lapco with probably the finest mirror finish in the industry.

Not all "old skool" tricks are good ideas.

[Ed]

I had great efficiency and zero rolls with the palmer brass barrel. I think I still have it too, but my youngest has it with his gear.

[1996XJ]

It still has a mirror finish after the honing.  It was a levigated alumina hone that seemed to make the mirror finish "more glossy" than the factory.

The ONLY reason for honing it was it was too small for the field paint and giving me velocity issues....  After it was honed the velocity spikes went away.  That is until my field from artic inferno to summer inferno which runs larger.

[Ed]

Funny. Honing would make the id larger......

[1996XJ]

What? :

[Have Blue]

Take extra special care of that barrel's bore if you've honed it - by removing the hard aluminum oxide coating (the anno) you expose the soft raw aluminum underneath, leaving it vulnerable to scratching and corrosion.

Like TH says, not all old school tricks are good ideas.

[1996XJ]

It still has the anno coating on it.

[stevo911_]

how can you remove material from the inside of the barrel, yet maintain the anno? thats what everyone is getting at.

[1996XJ]

When ppl hear hone they think of some coarse tool that bored right through the material.  This hone was vary fine, maybe like 1000grit sandpaper.

Anyway i figure the anno is about .001thousands, if you honed .0005thousands off that will equal a barrel that is .001thousands larger with a .0005thousands layer of anno left.  All measurments are theory though.  I realized the hone does have to physically remove some matrial but its on a very small scale.

Did anyone happen to read that barrel honing thread on MCB about 3 weeks ago, which is now locked?

Anyways it turned a pretty much useless barrel into something worth keeping.