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With the difficulty of finding new tubes to sleeve with, could orphan barrels be used economically? I know there is a lot of work to strip everything off the old barrels and machine to fit the mono-block, but. A quality set of orphan barrels can sometime be found at a reasonable price. Has anyone tried this?
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Not enough thickness in the back of the tubes for sleeving. At least this is typically the case. Unless the barrel set is super heavyweight.
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Oscar used to use pump gun barrels he would buy from Numrich. They were for discontinued models.
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Effebi in Italy sells tubes.
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If my memory is correct someone in the 80s was using 870 Remington barrels.
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As explained to me, the problem with using orphaned barrels is that the chamber is already cut so you have a rather thin sleeve of metal to weld into the breech piece. Also the barrels are usually fairly un-concentric back there so you would be very lucky to get the right amount of metal thickness in all the right places. Not impossible providing the the barrels are a good heavy set but probably more trouble than it is worth. Sleeving tunes still readily available from Italy, I believe.
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Some bbls from single shot break open type shotguns can lend themselves to the use. Especially the smaller gauges as they are typicaly a bit heavier to be used on some not so petite single shot frames. Kind of the same idea of dis-assembling a set of SxS tubes to get what you want. But getting two singles of the same can be a challenge unless you happen into a pile of NOS or similar at a place like Numrich
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About 10-12 years ago, I bought some unfinished and unchambered 20 gauge barrels from Dixie Gun Works in Union City, Tenn.
I haven't gotten a catalog from them for awhile, so don't know if they might still sell them.
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