Can a .22 cal. Winchester   Low Wall #1 barrel that has already been relined once be succesfully relined and chambered again without trouble?

Can relined barrels shoot as straight as any? 

Can anyone recommend someone that can do a good job?

Pete;
Your rifle shoots better than you think. The 50 yard center on the ASSRA German Ring target is 3/8".

Any rifle that will stay inside the German Ring Center or even the NRA fifty yard "x" ring is a pretty decent rifle, IMNHO.

Dale53

Pete;
I have been an avid squirrel hunter since I was a VERY young lad. I have always hunted with a rifle. It may be a muzzle loader, a .22 or even a cast bullet 25/20 Marlin that I treasure, but a rifle, nonetheless.

I try to shoot the squirrels in the head if the head is visible. It is not always so. However, using a standard .22 bullet, if a squirrel is shot thru the body they can get away. Hollow points tear up the squirrel too much. What to do?

Some years ago I read about the "Hanned Line". It was a small one man operation that produced some neat tools for shooters. It described a die that you could use to modify loaded .22's. It essentially made a semi-wadcutter out of the standard bullet. They called it the Small Game Buillet. CCI later produced a similar factory round. However, the home made variety is more efficient ( more square shouldered).

I had one made up locally. You just turn a cylinder of steel the diameter of the action end of a .22 sporter barrel. Chamber it for a .22 round. Then shorten the cylinder until just the nose of the bullet sticks out of the end of the die. You just want to barely flatten the nose. The proper amount only removes about 3-4 grains of lead. I set my die up to just remove the round nose. Case Harden the die with casenite (several applications). You want it glass hard.
Then you just insert a .22 and file off the nose. You can do a box in just a few minutes. It is a little tedious, but if you reserve these just for hunting it is a worthy tool.

It increases the "slam" of a .22 appreciably. You can hear the "plop" as the bullet hits. I have never had a squirrel run off and the damage to the meat is minimal (if the head is not available, I just shoot behind the shoulder - no meat wasted but a serious "stop" is had).

What you have done is make a fine semi wadcutter out of the .22. Accuracy is often increased.

Try it and you'll like it!
Dale53

Dale53,

 GWarden bought one of these tools to flatten .22 bullets and he likes it real well. Might make a handy project on the lathe this Winter.

 But I don't think either of us really needs it...... or at least I don't. I only take head shots, and if I miss, or can't get that shot, I pass it up. GWarden or Brent gets anything I shoot, and I get the pleasure of their company and a fine day in the woods.

 Going to try something today that might work better than trying to shoot across my knees while sitting. Cross sticks. Not like we normally think of them. Tied together at some point along their length, but just leave the two sticks free so they can be instantly adjusted to whatever position you need. Tried this out while sighting the Low Wall in this year and found it's easy to hold for the head with them, whereas without them I think I'd be lucky to hit them anywhere two out of five shots at 50 yds. or more.

 GWarden thinks we're already taking to much "stuff" along with us, and he might be right. Might have to get one of those jumping mules to haul everything around!  

PETE

Thanks for that input. Never relined before. 

Are they always glued in with Acraglass or similar?

Out of curiosity does anyone know if a barrel liner can be had in the new flat shooting and quiet .17 HMR?

Bluetooth,

  No, a few are soft soldered in. This used to be the only way it was done, but I would say most liners are put in with epoxy now. You can probably get into some good discussions as to which is best, but all I've ever had done were epoxied in and I can say they all shot very well.

  As for a .17 HMR liner...... I haven't heard of any, but if you check around someone might be making them.

Brent,

  What with the nap and almost getting run over by a flock of Turkeys he didn't have any time for reading today. 

PETE

Joe,

 Well, lets see if I can get a picture posted on here. If this comes thru it shows the cross sticks in use, and for Bluetooth it shows my .22 Low Wall that I re-lined.

PETE

P.S. Well, guess that didn't work so here's the web site address if you want to look at it.

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Ken,

WWWeeeelllll! It's not as good as it looks. Some idiot who polished it for the re-case rounded the edges a bit. The wood is factory and is their XX grade which is so stamped on the trigger bar. The butt plate could use a re-nickel, and I sure did wish that the palm rest had come with it. The bore was so bad I had to re-line it as mentioned in other messages.

  Price was real reasonable, but the re-case job turned off a coupla guys on here who shall remain nameless  . I kept telling them to buy it but after two years sitting on the sellers table I figured I'd better buy it before some other idiot got ahold of it, even tho I need another one like I need another hole in the head. Took a chance and lettered it. It's factory all the way, and now it's probably worth twice what I paid for it. But, with that old 4X Weaver on it it's gonna spend it's time with me as a nice light hunting rifle.

PETE