While I neither own, nor know anyone who owns, a Pedersoli Sharps 1859/63 rifle, I am curious about the metallurgy and overall quality of their barrels compared with the button-rifled Shiloh barrels.
Are Pedersoli's barrels of mild carbon steel alloys, similar to 1137 and 12L14 used for many muzzleloading rifle barrels, or some European chrome- or vanadium-molybdenum alloy similar to Badger's 4140 or Shiloh's 4150 used?
How well-made are the barrels in terms of configuration and precision of rifling?
Pedersoli's barrel quality on their 1859/63?
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Naphtali
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Pedersoli's barrel quality on their 1859/63?
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Charlie Hahn
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Re: Pedersoli's barrel quality on their 1859/63?
I have found the barrels of Pedersoli Sharps to be of very tough material. They are defiantly not 12L14. I have not sent any chips out for chemical and physical test, but I they machine close to the 86L20 I make revolver barrels out of.
The guns mad about 20 years ago have several rifling configurations, square bottom, and radius bottom. I have had a few that have narrow lands 8 groove, correctly stamped with no evidence of reline. The current production barrels have very nicely cut and what appears to be burnished. Grove diameters are also very consistent. I believe they will last.
Charlie Hahno
The guns mad about 20 years ago have several rifling configurations, square bottom, and radius bottom. I have had a few that have narrow lands 8 groove, correctly stamped with no evidence of reline. The current production barrels have very nicely cut and what appears to be burnished. Grove diameters are also very consistent. I believe they will last.
Charlie Hahno
Charlie Hahn