Rebarreling a Spencer

[spadegrip]

Will a repro barrel fit an original receiver?  If so which brand?

Thanks

[St. George]

No that I know of, since the reproductions are usually metric.

You may wish to re-line, instead.

Good Luck!

Vaya,

Scouts Out!

[Fox Creek Kid]

Ask the Spencer expert (who will recommend relining I'm sure):

http://www.romanorifle.com/

[Herbert]

Ask the Spencer expert (who will recommend relining I'm sure):

http://www.romanorifle.com/

I agree ,you will not find better advice on the working Spencer  than this

[spadegrip]

Thanks for the info, but I don't have a barrel to begin with.  This is a stripped receiver.

[St. George]

Then you're going to have to be haunting all of the dealers of original parts - try Dixie Gun Works first - then S&S Firearms.

Good Luck!

Vaya,

Scouts Out!

[Roscoe Coles]

I made a barrel for my original Burnside (which was a real basket case) a number of years back.  I bought a 50 cal barrel blank (for a BP cartridge gun) and turned it up on the lathe.  This was before repros were available.  I turned a band for the front sight, put the barrel in and set the head-space then cut the band off with a hacksaw and file, leaving the front site in the correct place (rather than silver soldering it on).  I then had a friend rust blue it.  It came out great.  It was quite a bit of work, especially because there were no chamber reamers for 56-50 at that point, which meant I had to cut the chamber on the lathe.  It came out fine, but I would have gotten a better job with a reamer.  I gave it new wood from S&S along with a center-fire block and I have since changed the extractor, using a lower block and extractor from a repro gun.  The system used on the repros is a version of late experimental extractor used  by Spencer and works much better than the original knife extractor.  Would I do this again?  For me?  Sure.  For someone else?  It would cost a good bit!