Carbon fiber barrel
Carbon fiber barrel
Does anyone make a carbon fiber shotgun barrel? Would love to have a 4 pound 20 gauge semi auto or 3 pound semi 410.
Re: Carbon fiber barrel
Don't know if it is suitable for anything other than small lead, but I think Winchester had a "plastic" barrel semi at one time. Model 59 or something or other someone will probably correct me on in the next post.
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Re: Carbon fiber barrel
59Winchester had a thin steel barrel wound in fiberglass. Aluminum reciever. Made it in 12ga only. Experimentally ran a few in 20ga and 14ga!!! I carried one grouse hunting for years.
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Re: Carbon fiber barrel
Christiansen arms might wrap one.Never heard of them doing a shotgun tho. Going to be $$$ though
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I have the 59 in 12 very light and way before it's time. In the future I see shotguns getting lighter and more gauge options. Sure would like to see a weatherby sa-08 410 on 410 frame.
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59Winchester was also the first shotgun to offer screw in choke tubes
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Model 59 Winch was the worst handling shotgun I have ever fired. Yes, it was light, but all the weight was in the butt. Pick it up with both hands and the barrels went skyward. Wretched gun to swing.
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But when you had greenbreirs wrapped around your neck and sliding down a hillside to try to get to a psychopathic Brittany and a very nervous grouse, it worked out ok!Spuriosity wrote:Model 59 Winch was the worst handling shotgun I have ever fired. Yes, it was light, but all the weight was in the butt. Pick it up with both hands and the barrels went skyward. Wretched gun to swing.
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Re: Carbon fiber barrel
Thought briefly about turkey hunting with one, but the floating chamber would probably play havoc with tss reloads
Re: Carbon fiber barrel
I seen one but it was on a clay gun. I don't know how it would work. I remember back when Remington came out with light contour barrel I got a gun that had light contour barrel and one that said buckshot. Big difference in them in od of barrel.
Re: Carbon fiber barrel
Yep, they did carbon fiber barrels on an O/U so you could have longer barrels. Think it was Fabarms.