Subject: Re: Tube drilling (was Gun Barrel drilling)

From: [email-masked] (Rick Cook)
Date: 5 Jun 1996 04:11:14 GMT

Reg H. Beardsley wrote:
>BTW Barrels have been drilled for a VERY long time by exactly the method
>described.  While it is true that barrels have been made by forge welding
>a tube, drilling was still necessary to achieve a uniform bore.
>
Oh yes. But until another poster provided the information I wasn't aware
that rifle/musket barrels had been drilled from solid. (Cannon, I knew
about.) You're quite right that a forge-welded barrel has to be cleaned by
drilling. It's just that that involves
a lot less stock removal.

--RC