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marlinguy Frequent Elocutionist Offline Ballards may be weaker, but they sure are neater! Posts: 18116 Location: Oregon Joined: Feb 2^nd, 2009	Re: Pope barrel liners? Reply #15 - Jul 10^th, 2026 at 2:20pm	Print Post
	westerner wrote on Jul 10^th, 2026 at 1:37pm: marlinguy wrote on Jul 10^th, 2026 at 11:45am: Seems the issue cleared itself up this morning. The guy who made the statement on Rimfire Central did some major reversal of his original claim about Pope doing lots of lined barrels he'd personally seen. Now he's apologizing for his original statement being "vague or misconstrued". He went on to say he's only seen one on a Stevens he owned. and actually hadn't seen any others he first claimed. So mystery solved. So the mystery has been reduced down to one? Yes. When I told him he was a very lucky guy to see so many Pope lined barrels, and I'd never seen one, nor had others; then he came back and basically retracted his statement saying he apologized for the vague or misconstrued statement. It wasn't vague at all, he was adamant he'd seen lots of them before.

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marlinguy Frequent Elocutionist Offline Ballards may be weaker, but they sure are neater! Posts: 18116 Location: Oregon Joined: Feb 2^nd, 2009	Re: Pope barrel liners? Reply #16 - Jul 10^th, 2026 at 2:25pm	Print Post
	RSW wrote on Jul 10^th, 2026 at 1:51pm: So . . . was that lined barrel a "Pope" barrel that was relined or, perhaps it was a barrel that Pope marked because the lined it? How the barrel is marked may tell the story. If it were a Pope barrel lined by him, it would likely have two sets of markings _ the original rifling plus the liner. Once upon a time I had a Stevens 52, 44 1/2 that Pope had rifled. Original stamps were neatly overstamped (.32 cal) and re-stamped when it was re-rifled by him with the .33 cal data. It had a false muzzle (numbered to the barrel) but no other accoutrements. I've contemplated how Harry Pope would approach one of his barrels, or somebody else's as it pertains to a liner, and I can't imagine Pope going through the process of building a liner in his typical rifling, and then boring out his or other barrel and installing the liner? It seems like he being a very great barrel maker would take the easier route of simply building a new barrel and fitting it. For a guy like Pope this seems far superior, and far less work. Your rebored and rifled barrel makes perfect sense as I've seen the same on barrels he did this to.

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