Hello DMM,

John B. Buhmiller was a Barrel Maker of some note in the years immediately after WW2. He specialised in barrel making and did not fit or otherwise machine them. His barrels were very popular with the Benchrest and Varmint shooters for perhaps 30 or more years. His workshop and home was in Kalispell. Montana.

He was not a gunsmith in the usual sense of the word, and only in late life did he design and partially built a single shot Action. He unfortunately passed away before it was completed. (circa late 1970's)See Frank DeHaas's book, A Potpourri of Single Shot Rifles and Actions (1993).

It would appear that most of Buhmillers barrels were in the .22" high velocity centrefire rifle barrels although as a 'Custom Barrel Maker' he would made any calibre to order. According to Roy Dunlap  Gunsmithing (1950), he would  bore, rifle and contour a barrel to order, but did no more to it. It was up to the customer to have another person thread, fit and chamber it.

Harry 

Found this by accident today.

1957 Guns Magazine, page 32.

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Frank

Val,
Do you have any rifles barreled buy George Titherington of Stockton, CA?

Frank