Pitting in barrels - DIY

[Zappa]

Whats the DIY process - if there is one - to remove pits from shotgun barrels? I've seen videos by Midway USA using honing stones but looks like a big investment for the once or twice off DIY'er.

If I take it to a gunsmith how much would I be looking at to do a sxs 28' barrels?

[Wapiti]

Mate I bought a barrel hone from Brownells, from the US site online. It looks just like an engine cylinder-bore hone but tiny, on a long flexible rod that you spin in your drill with WD40 or honing oil. They work VERY well.
When the job's done, the barrel looks like chrome inside.

I was shooting Noy cracker shells to scare the feral goats away from my stock's feed during the last drought, and when the bomb that the shell launches from the shotty goes up the barrel, the fuse leaves very hydroscopic salty residue that sucks all the humidity out of the air. You can imagine what happened. Kinda like shooting very corrosive ammo in an old 303 and not cleaning it.

[Oldbloke]

Mate I bought a barrel hone from Brownells, from the US site online. It looks just like an engine cylinder-bore hone but tiny, on a long flexible rod that you spin in your drill with WD40 or honing oil. They work VERY well.
When the job's done, the barrel looks like chrome inside.

I was shooting Noy cracker shells to scare the feral goats away from my stock's feed during the last drought, and when the bomb that the shell launches from the shotty goes up the barrel, the fuse leaves very hydroscopic salty residue that sucks all the humidity out of the air. You can imagine what happened. Kinda like shooting very corrosive ammo in an old 303 and not cleaning it.

Was that "bird fright"?
Includes black powder.

[bigpete]

Mate I bought a barrel hone from Brownells, from the US site online. It looks just like an engine cylinder-bore hone but tiny, on a long flexible rod that you spin in your drill with WD40 or honing oil. They work VERY well.
When the job's done, the barrel looks like chrome inside.

I was shooting Noy cracker shells to scare the feral goats away from my stock's feed during the last drought, and when the bomb that the shell launches from the shotty goes up the barrel, the fuse leaves very hydroscopic salty residue that sucks all the humidity out of the air. You can imagine what happened. Kinda like shooting very corrosive ammo in an old 303 and not cleaning it.

How do you think they'd go honing the rifling out of a barrel?

[Zman]

How do you think they'd go honing the rifling out of a barrel?

Before Wapiti comes back, what's the tricky thing about it ? I can see the rifling getting flattened with but aren't they flat anyway or are they crowned?

[bigpete]

How do you think they'd go honing the rifling out of a barrel?

Before Wapiti comes back, what's the tricky thing about it ? I can see the rifling getting flattened with but aren't they flat anyway or are they crowned?

I dont know if they'll take the rifling out or not. I want to turn a rifle into a smoothbore

[Wapiti]

Hi fellas
I used it on my Chinese 1887 lever shotty, the rust was in the forcing cone just after the chamber and the first 6 inches or so.
The damn fuse that lights upon firing has a blackpowder fuse, they told me to clean out the barrel immediately afterwards but of course I knew best and didn't.
A month later I thought, better clean that gun (it's quite special, it is the first one ever sent to Aus, has serial number 00001 and has a wicked piece of figured walnut on it) and looked down it and freaked out. Should've listened.

It was similar to Birdfrite, but Noy down the Gold Coast has these monstrously loud explosive shells that make Birdfrite sound anaemic... and the flash ball on the brightest day is enormous. Cracker Shells, they call them. If you fire one at night, you see the bomb trailing a lit orange fuse as it goes up, lit by the charge throwing it out. After a few you work out the trajectory and can lob it with some accuracy, right amongst a mob of annoying ferals. This really teaches them a lesson.

I blew up some feral goats held up at a hole in the fence and it detonated right amongst them, real arsey shot and a dozen of so just fell over stiff-legged from fright. I thought, oh no, I've killed some, but after 15-20 seconds they stopped kicking and got up and bolted.

When you fire one, they go "plooop" and sail off quite a distance at 45', so you don't need hearing protection but I had one malfunction and go off about 50cm from the barrel and the flash ball burnt my eyebrows and hair off and I was deaf for a day. Holy sh*t.

That barrel hone set works incredibly well on smoothbores, but would definitely cr@p itself trying to remove rifling. That would require a deep hole drill on a lathe and heaps of coolant.

[Wapiti]

In case you guys are interested, might help out.

[Wapiti]

And, the crackershells.

They also sell rubber full-size 12g slugs, and rubber buckshot. Have both on hand, sometimes non-lethal is a solution.

[Oldbloke]

In case you guys are interested, might help out.

Also known as a brake cylinder hone.

[Wapiti]

Thanks for your contribution mate.
As I said, it might help some others out.