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recurve shooter:
sorry, i know this is gunna be hard without a pic but i cant get this camera phone to cooperate with me. i have a caplock rifle, i think it was one of the traditions kits, that my dad shot a long time ago, but he retired it because of a hole drilled in the barrel. its a heavy octagonal barrel, and on the bottom of it there are two little bracket things welded to the barrel for pinning the forward stock to it, but whoever drilled them mised the bracket with a hole, and its through the bottom of the barrel. its below the bore so the barrel is still intacked, it just has a hole drilled through the bottom of it. get what im tryin to say? i really want to shoot this gun but i dont wanna lose a hand or anything. what do yall think?

JW_Halverson:
The two bracket thingeys are called "lugs" or barrel lugs, to be more correct.  When you say the hole is thru the barrel, I am only assuming that the hole does not pass into the actual bore of the barrel where hot gasses and such could escape. 

Got a caliper?  Got a friend that has a caliper?  Know someone at a machine shop, cuz those guys all use calipers.  You are going to want to measure the thickness of the barrel between the outside flat and the bore.  That will tell you how thick the barrel walls are.  Then measure how deep into that barrel wall the hole is.  If you can get me some numbers, I can talk with some of the famous (or infamous) gun builders I know.  If it was made by Traditions, I bet even money it is a Green Mountain brand barrel.  They are a serious mass producer, but their barrels still hold some international records...production barrels, not even custom jobs.  At least you are dealing with good quality steel.

recurve shooter:
thanks. i shot it and foud out there is acutally a pin hole from the bore to the hole so its gunna hang on the wall. gunna save up and buy a lyman.

islandpiper:
There are ways to "undrill" a hole,  but you may be doing the best thing just setting it back.  But, bring it in sometime, i'd like to see it.  piper

recurve shooter:
will do mr. kieth. ian wants to make a big pistol out of it.  :-\  ??? ::)

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