Table of contents

Introduction	2
Equipment and tools	3
Converting the lathe	7
Deep hole drilling	11
Drilling the rifle barrel	13
Reaming the drilled barrels	16
Barrel straightening	18
Rifle barrel steel	21
Importance of rifling	23
Making rifling buttons	26
Making reamers & barrel reaming	31
The button rifling machine	38
Completing the machine	43
Rifling the barrel	45


The modern rifle barrel


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