McGowen introducing ECM rifled barrels...

[Wannashootit]

Noticed they have a "coming soon" for this on their home page.
Didn't know this process has apparently gone beyond R&D.
Not aware of any other major players doing this- have I been asleep?

 

[st1650]

Imagine buying from McGowens in the year of our lord 2025.

 

[Wannashootit]

WTF does that mean?

 

[Tokay444]

Faxon will also have ECM barrels in the not too distant future.

 

[ruger35]

You can get them in certain calibers now from Carbon Six. I’ve shot them at the range. Three of the guys in our group shot ECM Carbon Six barrels at the NF Challenge.

I’ve got a 6.5PRC ECM barrel on order from Carbon Six.

 

[mmlook]

You can get them in certain calibers now from Carbon Six. I’ve shot them at the range. Three of the guys in our group shot ECM Carbon Six barrels at the NF Challenge.

I’ve got a 6.5PRC ECM barrel on order from Carbon Six.

carbon six = mcgowen steel blank

just in case anyone is unaware

At shot show they said they were doing 6.5mm only, but will expand to the entire line up by end of this year

 

[ruger35]

WTF does that mean?

Cut rifling but using electrodes to do it.

 

[mmlook]

Cut rifling but using electrodes to do it.

the way it was described to me was basically sinker EDM rifling

 

[4O6shootist]

You can get them in certain calibers now from Carbon Six. I’ve shot them at the range. Three of the guys in our group shot ECM Carbon Six barrels at the NF Challenge.

I’ve got a 6.5PRC ECM barrel on order from Carbon Six.

How did their rifles shoot? All the C6 blanks I looked into that were 2-4 years old, looked like shit, but shot pretty well. Didn't appear they put much work into lapping out the tooling marks.