Cutting a barrel????

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animalloverbutalsohunter

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I have a ruger charger and its hard to find short barrels for it! Can i get a 20'' barrel and cut it down with a hacksaw? Then round off the edge?? Is this possible? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused1.gif
 
I had a cheapo savage 22 that I wanted to fit to my 4yo.

I cut down the stock and shaved the grip WAY down. Fit him like a glove, but the barrel was way too long.

I looked up the legal minimum, then chucked up the barreled action in the lathe and cut it down with a hacksaw at 800 rpm. Re-crowned it with a tapered reamer.

It shoots really good and is absolutely adorable!

I didn't care if it shot baseball sized groups at 10 yards, it would work to teach him. Turns out it shoots dimes at 10 yards, so I'm plenty happy with it.
 
I was wondering the same thing awhile back and found some pretty good articles on yahoo search. I think I typed in: cutting down a rifle barrel. I found an article where this guy took an old 22 and cut it down with a hacksaw. He used a coned shaped grinding piece from a dremel tool to crown it.
 
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Getting a legal barrel UNDER 16 inches! Maybe around 12 inches. Just Something to add some variety to this gun!



That's not a legal barrel on rifle.
 
i have a charger that i just put a 12in bull barrel on.i took a barrel from a 10/22 and had a friend cut and recrown it.looks good and shoots great.
 
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Getting a legal barrel UNDER 16 inches! Maybe around 12 inches. Just Something to add some variety to this gun!



That's not a legal barrel on rifle.



The Charger is a pistol..........so it's perfectly legal.
 
get the barrel send it to me and Ill cut it and crown it for you. in fact I have a factory 10-22 barrel I can cut and send it to you if they are the same.
 
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I looked up the legal minimum, then chucked up the barreled action in the lathe and cut it down with a hacksaw at 800 rpm. Re-crowned it with a tapered reamer.





why did you use a reamer if you had a lathe to do it with?
 
I must be missing something, because on Ruger's website it says that the Charger has a ten inch barrel. Please excuse my ignorance.

-Vaquero38
 
Gotcha, it was a wood lathe. My left hand was the support bearing on the barrel end! It was a git-er-done job like is being asked about, not a professional job. It just turned out good!
 
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I must be missing something, because on Ruger's website it says that the Charger has a ten inch barrel. Please excuse my ignorance.



Vaquero,
The Charger is a pistol. In order for it to be legal, it has to have a barrel length of under 16 inches in the State of VA.. Dont know about everywhere else. I want to get another barrel for it and the choices are very slim! That i have seen, only 1 company is making the barrels for them!


Andrew
 


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