You don't always need to waste an otherwise good S&W barrel just because it has a damaged forcing cone.

I have a 696 which came to me having a barrel with an oversized forcing cone. A couple years ago, after I had S&W replace that barrel with a "no longer available" new barrel from a special "discarded parts bin" (gotta talk to the right guy, and I paid 'em for it too), I then had the old barrel just laying around.

This year, I cut the forcing cone off of the old 696 barrel and fitted what remained of that barrel to a Charter Arms stainless .44 Special Bull Dog to replace the crummy factory barrel. The 3" barrel shrunk to 2-3/8" and I now have a C.A. 44 Bull Dog with a "match grade" barrel, though I'm not exactly sure now why I needed it.

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Now what are you going to do with the Charter Arms barrel?

Looks good.

Always nice to re-purpose something.

Around here, we call otherwise useless barrels "tomato stakes." Maybe he could grow some of those little cherry tomatoes...

Froggie

It's truly not worth a tinker's damn. But, because it bears the Charter Arms ID on it, I'm keeping it with the gun until I can get "Charter Arms, Shelton CT" engraved on the frame.

Steve

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It's got a real retro, late 19th Century look to it, doesn't it? I generally patterned it after the H&R .44 American (pictured below), which my great grandfather kept behind the bar of his Silver Dollar Wine Room (aka The Silver Dollar Saloon) in San Francisco until the 1906 earthquake and fire (which certainly explains its condition).





Steve

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