Clearing a Deactivated Rifle Barrel 

He mentions that in the first video.

I've seen duffel cuts and have several, but never a barrel. Pulling it out of the action should let it fit. I've got Carcanos, Mausers, Arisakas, all stock cut. I suspect this was "deactivated" for local ordinance. Quite a few guns in NYC are like this. If they did cut both, it means the owner never intended to use it. It's possible to rejoin a cut barrel--we've done it--but it's a long and involved process.

Duffle cuts are only stocks

Back in the early 90s, I worked on a ww2 veteran's oil furnace. While in the basement, I noticed a really old riffle sitting on a shelf that had been cut in two. Both the barrel and the stock. I asked the man about it. He told me that it was cut so it would fit in his duffle bag when he returned from the war. He called it a duffle cut. You may have seen more of them than I have, but I can honestly say I saw one that had both the barrel and stock cut to fit into a duffle bag. This riffle was a flintlock muzzle loader. When they cut it, they even cut the ramrod.

My old man brought back an M1 carbine complete aside from the barrel being off and taped to the stock . Never found out where it ended up shame

That's what's going on here! Thank you. Was wondering what happened here.

Awesome history fact!

Curious if a portion of those holes were in the same fashion as the British Enfields that had holes drilled; they were all prominently marked “DP” for drill purpose only.

I don't know where you get that information but drilling holes in the barrels mid section has been requirement for deactivation since like 1970 up till 2014 in most European countries. Originally there was three holes in the size of the bore usually put on the underside of the barrel since thats least vidible place. later law changed and three holes in the size of outer dimension of the barrel + welded chamber and bolthead cut by 45 degrees appeared. Since early 2000s every functional part of the weapon has to be welded shut. Anyway it has nothing to do with traps and certainly nothing with ww2. Especially since hole in the barrel will not make it explode unless theres some obstruction added to it. Automatic Glocks have holes in the barrels by factoryfor example

@@GetTheFO The P14 barrels with holes in the chamber have a way to be safely repaired since spare original barrels on the surplus market are gone. The Dutch booby trap barrels can be too, though it's a different process. The bobby trap barrels were usually in the down position in the forearm area. The reason for this is when fired the barrel would literally detonate the stock sending wood and hot gases at thousands of PSI into the hand and or arm of the shooter, rendering him useless for battle at that moment, and possible permanently.

@@bad74maverick1 Interesting! I’d never read that they’d intentionally made holes like that with the intent of being an anti-personnel method, looks like I’ve got new reading to do!

I have done threading projects like this. They require a very fine pitch (28 DPI or greater). The problem is chucking the barrel for turning and threading. the taper in the barrel makes it more difficult to align, but it can be done. If you are really good and take your time, the connection will be invisible -- you will not be able to see or feel it. Expect to pay a price for this kind of premium work.

Nice! An artillery or infantry carbine is on my list of guns to have. A few of the bare receivers at the end of the video are dated 1941

Yes. But I recently read of a gentleman who revarreled his M1 Garand in 6.5 Swede. It's definitely a project I'd consider for the reduced recoil.

Maybe it's the video but the chamber end is smooth and there were some tool marks on the cut end.

Never heard of it, interesting. I'm sure that would have been useful if the whole bore was plugged.

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I don’t think its gallium because it has a very low melting point.

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I've heard Krags are very cheap in Norway and Denmark, but I assume that's partially due to the requirements to own them.

I haven't ventured into muzzle loading or paper cartridge breechloaders.. yet. Last gun show I went to an acquaintance showed me the Kammerlader he recently got. Now I need one of those!

Krags are literally everywhere in Norway, check out finn

​@rakumprojects alot of them have been run through and aren't accurate anymore

Hmm, I hadn't thought of that. Could have been used for re-enacting

I think its called Cero-safe. Not sure if thats the correct spelling.

Cerrosafe. It's around the same consistency as lead so that drill bit would have eaten right into it.

I'll definitely keep it. I can't think of too many 8mm caliber pistol cartridges it could be chambered in, maybe 8mm French Ordinance.

The 32 ACP has been used. They sell chamber adapters from Alaska that shot cartridges from rifle barrels.. I'd guess a lower powered 32 would make for some interesting projects. That could be a single shot Carbine. I'm not that familiar with the cartridge. Clynsrs does sale chamber reamers so that fabrication remains a popular use for old barrels. No real sense in it as everything is there already but fun. Many likely turned into silencesd rifles by counterboring and adding suppression holes. Indeed I'd wonder how many curios and relics have been modified into pistols and WWII style specialty weapons.

8mm Nambu is produced as well.

@@rakumprojects would make a really neat .40 S&W/10mm barrel.

I'm lucky this rifle didn't have that done to it. Those are well beyond repair

Any recommendations for a boring bar rigid enough? The only thing I have small enough is a cheap set of brazed carbide, so I'd need a new tool anyway.

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As long as the rifling is only damaged at the crown, yes. Problem is that most RTI rifles have rust and pitting throughout the whole bore.

@rakumprojects Sounds like I need lathe... A good few of the rifles I've gotten from them have what appear to be serviceable bores, but the muzzles fail the bullet test, and they shoot a little wonky, but not keyholing all over the place either.

Is it just plugged? that's easy. If the chamber is drilled there is a safe way now to repair DP barrels that have an otherwise mint bore. Australians who cannot get barrels and have DP rifles which have to be registered as real guns and licensed the same came up with a way.

@@bad74maverick1 Yep the bore is just plugged. Its not one of the UK DP rifles that are bored out laterally at the chamber. People say that rods were welded into the barrel. If its just lead tho that would be fantastic. Ill dig it out and have a look and see what I have! Tell me about the method you're describing, would love to hear more!

@@herrcobblermachen I am actually thinking about doing a youtube channel on the process on my other (new not started) gun channel. So: Pull the barrel first. Get a section of .303 barrel or .30 caliber barrel (fal, bad M1 whatever, .303 is preferable), turn down the outside of the section just until it's flat, no contours. Bore out the barrel chamber to the case mouth the same ID as the OD of the barrel stub. Thread the holes on either side of the chamber. Cut the barrel section the length of the bored out chamber to the face of the chamber if it's a little long no problem we can turn it to factory chamber face specs. Press in the stub into the chamber (make sure it's a somewhat tight pressing). Silver solder the stub in place. Counter sink the stub on either side inside the threaded chamber holes. Run set screws in each side of the chamber holes and crank them down as hard as they will go. Weld over the chamber holes making sure a good solid weld with the set screws, not just on top of them. Chamber ream the barrel, check the chamber face, cut the extractor groove and reinstall the barrel. It sounds like a lot of work but it's not bad. Plus most of the DP P-14's are numbers matching and mint condition, not to mention good luck finding a loose barrel on the surplus market!

I'm not sure if it would. I also have some rifles with worse bores that shoot ok, including one with a bulged barrel. But since the ring was so close to the end, counter boring as a prevention measure wasn't too hard.

Nothing in particular. I got the rifle from a dealer that mostly sells C&R firearms

I have a bunch of things tucked away. Just need the time and parts to build

I didn't want to affect the rest of the rifling trying to remove the ring, thats why I didn't try lapping. The ball bearing in lapping compound is a good tip, I might just try that out to remove any burrs

It's possible. Relining a rifle barrel is a lot of work though, outside of my skill set and tooling unfortunately.

Relining a smokeless powder rifle barrel is almost impossible, save for small caliber, rimfire and black powder, especially if cut in two. A drilled hole is different, but still takes a competent gunsmith. Cartridges with lower pressures are okay but military calibers are not. A perfect example of this is the Italian Vetterlli conversions to 6.5×52 during WW1. A fine gun using black powder, not designed for smokeless and shouldn't be shot with it, so hand loads only. A high powered rifle barrel is the same, even lined it is an easy breaking point.

I'd like to since that was the plan with this video initially. I'd have to find one first though

It could be made to work for some sort of pistol cartridge where the bullet diameter matches the bore. The outside diameter is too small to cut a chamber for a rifle cartridge

This one was made in Denmark. Denmark and the US also produced and used Krag rifles in addition to Norway.

Not a bad idea. But for these rifles I try to keep them as original as possible

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I think that was just to deburr it, because that does not seem like a crown

I'm not sure why there's a crown. I think maybe it was done to center the aluminum plug before hammering it in

Any gun shop in the US will sell deactivated guns alongside functional guns since they require the same licenses/paperwork to own

@@rakumprojects do you perhaps know where or how you can get one in Europe?

@@SomeRandomPolishGunFanatic I wouldn't know. And judging from other comments, Europe has much stricter laws regarding deactivating firearms