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Fellow forum member sent me a pm asking about a company that cryogenically treats your gun to make ....it better. Kinda like the benelli with their cryogenickly treated barrels they advertise. I am throwing the bravo sierra flag since I think thee is more to this treatment than just dipping a gun in liquid nitrogen. Anybody who knows what they're talking about want to weigh in and either confirm my suspicions or show me I'm wrong???
 
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Theoretically, I believe it is supposed to "stress relieve" the metal in a barrel to prevent it from warping under heat and the stress of firing. The jury is out as to whether it works or not. Some swear by it. I have no personal experience with it; I have better things to waste my money on.

John
 
I haven't had any barrels treated, but The American Rifleman did some comprehensive tests some years back that did a before and after comparison. As recall the test results were mixed with some rifles improving and others showing no change. Sorry I don't have a link to that article. Maybe somebody else will remember more than I do.

Frankly if I had a rifle with a barrel problem, I would just replace the barrel rather than fooling around with cryo anything.
 
Caj,
I was hopin' this was about freezin' you. :eek:
I'd chip in....:D
 
PALADIN85020 said:
Theoretically, I believe it is supposed to "stress relieve" the metal in a barrel to prevent it from warping under heat and the stress of firing. The jury is out as to whether it works or not. Some swear by it. I have no personal experience with it; I have better things to waste my money on.

John
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John,
I do think your right...

As part of the tempering process to stabilize the austenite or to double phase the austenitization or simple put change the ferrite to austenite in the mollecturestructer.

Or some new fangled cajon cooking resipe...

Su Amigo,
Dave
 
It generally only matters if being done as part of the voodoo of tweaking a precision rifle. If someone is interested in that process, well it certainly doesn't seem to hurt.

I thought you were going to ask about having your remains preserved so that you can wake up one day screaming in the Planet of the Apes.
 
GatorFarmer said:
It generally only matters if being done as part of the voodoo of tweaking a precision rifle. If someone is interested in that process, well it certainly doesn't seem to hurt.

I thought you were going to ask about having your remains preserved so that you can wake up one day screaming in the Planet of the Apes.
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GET YOUR STINKING PAWS OFF ME YOU DAMN DIRTY APE
;)
 
I dont know anything about cryogentics, however for a small donation you can send me your guns and I will bless them for you!
 
It should come as no surprise to you I don't know what I'm talking about... :D

They've been doing the cryo thing for a long time now. One of my buddies works for a heat treating company. They generally heat treat huge pieces of steel, not tiny things... What he says is its not the eventual heat that matters as much as the slow cooling.

With Cryo, its the slow warm up.

Blackjack knives used it for a while. They pretty much copied the grind of Randall knives, but used a cryogenic hardening process. They're out of business now, I think. They used to have an outlet store in IL or western IN on I-70. Its gone now.

I have no idea if they remove the barrel from the gun, or just freeze the entire gun. That worries me.

On another related subject.. Is Ted Williams still frozen?
 
CAJUNLAWYER said:
or however you spell it.
Fellow forum member sent me a pm asking about a company that cryogenically treats your gun to make ....it better. Kinda like the benelli with their cryogenickly treated barrels they advertise. I am throwing the bravo sierra flag since I think thee is more to this treatment than just dipping a gun in liquid nitrogen. Anybody who knows what they're talking about want to weigh in and either confirm my suspicions or show me I'm wrong???
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Sir, as I understand it, it makes steel machine easier, resulting in a smoother finish. I've read somewhere that Krieger barrels use cryogenically treated steel, but the cryo treatment is done before they make the barrel. Krieger barrels are very fine indeed. Whether cryo treatment is of any use on an existing barrel or gun is the subject of some debate.

On another cryo note, there was a fella up in Nederland above Boulder who wanted to be cryogenically stored after his death, and so it was done. Now Nederland has an annual festival of some sort (I haven't been to it) called "Frozen Dead Guy Days." :rolleyes:

Hope this helps, and Semper Fi.

Ron H.
 
Can you imagine opening your freezer and seeing the cold stare of cajunlawyer looking up at you? Oughta be a horror movie in this somewhere. I just noticed this thread was about freezing guns. I don't know anything about that.
 
GatorFarmer said:
It generally only matters if being done as part of the voodoo of tweaking a precision rifle. If someone is interested in that process, well it certainly doesn't seem to hurt.

I thought you were going to ask about having your remains preserved so that you can wake up one day screaming in the Planet of the Apes.
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Gator, if he did wake up there, he'd eat the apes. He's Caje. Anything with legs but the table.
 
The funny part is the company doing this freezing stuff to guns is basically in cajunLawyer's front yard. In fact their web site is cajuncryogneics.com

I figure he owns a good portion of the state in that area so maybe he owned that place as well.

According to what I have read by those using a gun that was cryogenically treated, it made their gun more accurate.

Not sure I want my guns placed in anything that is 316 degrees cold.
 
Ten years ago I had my .44 Triple Lock, SN 11XX, and in 95% condition cryogenically treated. I was there for the whole process.

As the technician was slowly removing it from the -316 degree F chamber, I watched …..


….. as he dropped it!




Then the fight started. ;)
 
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