How To Make Your Own Rifle Barrels

Start with a receiver and parts you can buy a lower receiver and make it into anything you want provided you get the tax stamp first if you intend to build an sbr from the ground up.

How to make your own rifle barrels. After it got into the steel and sped up both speed and feed to the proper rates and drilled through the part. Constructing the barrel is an integral part of the gun making process. Once all the parts are on hand assembly of the rifle simply involves l. Make sure the diameter of the pipe fits your bullet snugly.

If you attempt anything shown in this video you. If you wish to experiment with making your own pistols legally they need to have a rifled bore or the national firearms act nfa paperwork and tax stamp to comply with united states law. Lap the barrel to fine polish the bore. Then it indexed to the 35 1 length to diameter 140 degree drill.

Cut a piece of thick walled 25 inches or more in diameter iron pipe so that it s long enough to form the gun barrel. Running at 500rpm in free air it entered the pilot hole and started turning at 1 2 the proper drill speed and feed rate. The size of the skelp is dependant on the size barrel but for a 46 rifle barrel 1 1 8 at the breech it would be about 38 long 4 wide and tapering from 1 2 to 3 8 in thickness. Cut a piece of steel for the barrel stock.

The idahoan demonstrates a do it yourself version of the button rifling process for making a rifled pistol barrel with minimal tooling. Barrel making demo for a learning weekend in february 1983. The first step is to create a skelp from a bar of wrought iron. My simple crude tool to cut rifle grooves in blank barrels.

Too tight and the gun may explode in your hand. How to make a gun barrel steps choose the type of steel to be used for the gun barrel.