Precision Craftsmanship for Exceptional Performance
The SHILEN 30 Caliber Barrels are designed with the utmost attention to detail, ensuring that your firearm achieves the highest level of accuracy. When it comes to shooting, the quality of the barrel is paramount.
Product Description
All the loving care of the best stock maker and the meticulous attention to detail of the master machinist will not make a gun shoot any straighter than the accuracy capability of the barrel used. It is the insides of a barrel, that very small and vital area of lands and grooves over which the gunsmith has no control, that can determine whether the finished work of art is for shooting - or “just for looks”.
Craftsmanship... not price... determines the quality of a barrel. However, a customer willing to invest in a custom gun should not compromise by ordering “just any old barrel so long as it’s cheap”. Such a request jeopardizes your reputation as a gun builder.
As your supplier, we are laying our reputation (and yours, too!) on the line by offering you barrel blanks. They have got to be good, or we are in trouble! Big trouble! We must never sell you anything but that which will enhance your stature with your trade. We believe that the Brownells Barrel, made for us by Ed Shilen, will do just that!
Shilen barrels, whether chrome moly or stainless, are rifled with six lands and grooves using the Cold Forming process with carbide dies made in Shilen’s own plant under the most rigid controls. This rifling method achieves extremely close inside uniformity from breech to muzzle.
- Finished barrels are air-gauge inspected (air-gauged sensitivity is .00005" - five-one-hundred-thousandths!)
- 6X borescope inspected.
- All barrels, .22 through .30 caliber, have groove tolerances within .0005" and uniformity within .0003".
- No straightening is done, and all barrels are completely stress-relieved.
- All stainless steel barrels are hand lapped at the factory.
Only those barrels passing all spec tests are offered to the trade. Any barrel even slightly “suspect” is started through the production process again and bored to a large caliber. In no other way can quality and reputation be maintained.
While slightly more expensive to produce, the SHILEN 30 Caliber Barrels offer vastly greater quality and ultimate performance.