dead barrels, what do i do with them?

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gun buybacks in your area?

Might could get away with that =)
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even if i could, i would NOT! i have a real problem with the entire concept. if i ever even ran across one by accident, i would probably end up in jail. so i avoid them like the plague. even if this website allowed extremely vulgar language, the words i would use to describe them, and the people that go there to turn in guns, would make a 40 year veteran sailor running to be blessed by a preacher! and have his ears sanitized and disinfected as well. lets just say that i would rather do business with the devil himself than one of those things!
 
How about sending them to one of the gun smith schools for use as some sort of teaching tools.

Me, I'd chuck them in the trash, but then I got over my pack rat stuff many years ago. I don't use it in 6 months it's GONE!
 
A gunsmith or machinist could use them to make muzzle brakes or flash hiders, or they could be cut down for smaller cal cartridges.
 
Fire pokers.
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Not too far off, I remember reading someplace that during WWI they would use there rifle barrels to stir the fire. also so they could blow down the barrel to get it going. I think replacates where sold by LL bean.
 
If you would still be interested in donating them to a gunsmith school.....PM me. I am not the gunsmith instructor (I'm CNC), but we share an office and I PROMISE he will gladly take them off your hands.

He uses them for students to practice chambering and fluting, etc. and is always in need of them.
 
I picked up a set of old M1A stock cut up for stool legs. One idea I had was to use gun barrels for the foot rests. I'd take them to work and roll them on the heavy equipment. So build some stools! ~Wingnut13
 
Don't toss them out yet, that new process is taking shot out barrells and making them mil dot spec, someone remember the name of it? It slides over and get's clamped on with some resin for a day, they claim to make them more accurate than new. It's a sleeve, "expensive" like 3-8 hundred, for dura, stainless, etc
 
they were not shot out. one had the chamber reamed incorrectly (out of round), it was a brand new barrel! the other had bore obstruction damage. in any case, i found a home for them at a gunsmithing school. the students can learn what NOT to do with them, if nothing else. i guess my thoughts would be to first, run a bore scope through them, and then make a lap to practice lapping with. they could also practice rechambering by reaming them to a 300 R.U.M. in any case, at least they will not be collecting dust and rust around here.
 
I don't think they would make real good knives, ordnance steel is a little on the soft side.
 
Ruined gun bbls...

Best suggestion I ever heard for a bad gun bbl: a Conservation Warden once observed to me that they make perfect horseshoe stakes.

I do like the idea of sectioning them for use as teaching tools, too!
 
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