Good morning!
I am looking two 1860 carbine barrels, and have come to the conclusion that they're purely 'relining' projects at this point. After really extensive cleaning and wishful thinking about the extent rifling, they're just beyond hope. One has chamber damage with rust-through to the extractor slot, and the other has too much loss of rifling and massive areas of really rough pitting (rotten is a good descriptor).
I'm looking for recent info on anyone's preference for smiths that reline these - as well as what I should expect to budget for the jobs. Each to be relined to 50 cal., chambered for original 56/50 case dimensions (not the AS/Starline undersized rim cartridge).
Haven't heard of anyone other than Larry Romano and Robert Hoyt that does these.
Thanks for any info!
ps - if anyone has cost info that they don't want to communicate in-the-open, feel free to message me - thnx!