? for those with Shilen barrels

[blanchard83]

Bought a Shilen select match in 260AI. For those of you that have bought Shilen barrels are yours as poorly engraved as mine? No where on it does it say Shilen. Did I get screwed?

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S/M Shilen Match Select Match

[Code4]

Where did you buy it ?

[Beekeeper]

Mine came right from Shilen marked like that.

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Northland Shooters for mine

[OLEJOE]

Just installed one in 30-06. It was marked like the one you showed. It came from Northland also. I think the S7 is the Shilen tip-off.

[missed]

My 243 barrel looks like that, just hand engraved.

[BoilerUP]

S/M: Shilen (Select?) Match
260AI
S7: Savage Varmint contour
8T: 1-8 twist

Yeah it ain't pretty engraving, but ya can't see it when its installed either...

[Bike Effects]

I have a Shilen CM barrel. No markings other than caliber that I can recall. Paid extra for hand lapping when ordered through a gunsmith but now that I own a Borescope I doubt that it was lapped. Too many reamer marks. It's a 22-250 and it shoots in the .400's on a Ruger 77.

[blanchard83]

Thanks for the replys. Having a very hard time getting it to shoot decent. Took it apart to inspect it and though the engraving looked a little odd. The chamber is very rough looking in the neck area. Going to run a reamer in a little deeper to clean it up and go from there.

[Wildboarem]

Have a Rock Creek I just picked that the engraving was even more scribbled than that. Shot the first three shots out of it at .5" and the best in the high .2's. I care less about the engraving as I do about the end result.

[stangfish]

Have you ever used an engraving pen on the end of a piece of 1.062 roundstock?

[missed]

Have you ever used an engraving pen on the end of a piece of 1.062 roundstock?

Exactly.

They need one of the Cnc laser engravers!

[Dennis]

I have changed a lot of barrels. Most don't have the manufacture's name on the barrel. I don't have the answer, but have seen many with little to no information.

JMO, Dennis

[tiny68]

Thanks for the replys. Having a very hard time getting it to shoot decent. Took it apart to inspect it and though the engraving looked a little odd. The chamber is very rough looking in the neck area. Going to run a reamer in a little deeper to clean it up and go from there.

If the chamber has chatter marks from the reamer, I would call Wade Hull and send it back to let them fix. I am confident they will. If you do chamber work on top of their work, they get off the hook. Just my 2 cents, Tim

[blanchard83]

I am sure that they will also. I have the tools and would rather just do it myself because of the time saved and hassle of shipping back and forth.

[Westcliffe01]

Perhaps a bit off topic, but the CBI barrel I just got as the substitute for the Shilen I ordered in April (which never got closer to shipping) has very nice roll stamping around the circumference that provides the manufacturer, chambering and twist info. Given how easy it is for a precision shop to make a roll stamp machine, I now find it rather perplexing why a shop like shilen would not do this in the first place.

The OE barrels are different in that they are roll stamped in the axial direction which is more complicated, especially when all the barrel contours are taken into account.. Possibly it is done to the barreled action, since they place the text in a precise location relative to the stock.

[stangfish]

Thinking out load to West. If I was a custom gun maker or smith I might want my name on the barrel or the chambering marked as well , possibly even the lack of knowing where the barrel will be indexed keeps any marks from being on the barrel. If the customer or purchaser of the rifle questions the maker, there it is right on the breach. I have a custom with the words "SHILEN" axially right on the left side of the barrel, looks to be acid etched.

[Westcliffe01]

Stang, if CBI does it just right, they could put the roll stamp where the nut would cover it when installed. But there would be no doubt where the barrel came from. I see no good coming from hiding the identity of the barrel maker. That way, the seller could at any point claim it was made by "insert name of barrel house" and no-one would know any better. I would rather be sure of who the barrel maker really was.

[stangfish]

I agree. I do think that the roll stamp is not optimum as it produces stresses and minor bore deviations. Am I good enough to know the difference? Nope.