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Rifle barrel disposal #6821624 07/13/17 05:53 PM
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I recently had one of my rifles rebarreled and the company that did it shipped the old one back to me as well. Any idea how I'm supposed to dispose of it? I was thinking maybe I could set it out with the recycling, or just with the trash, but those seem dicey.

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It makes a good tomato stake!


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Originally Posted By: ETXbuckman
I recently had one of my rifles rebarreled and the company that did it shipped the old one back to me as well. Any idea how I'm supposed to dispose of it? I was thinking maybe I could set it out with the recycling, or just with the trash, but those seem dicey.


What seems dicey? It just a hunk of metal.


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You can sell them for a little of nothing. Guys use them to make chamber seaters and depth gauges. I've kept mine because I have aspirations of owning a lathe someday and we'll need some practice barrels.


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Re: Rifle barrel disposal [Re: ETXbuckman] #6821686 07/13/17 06:52 PM
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I might pound one into a knife one day.


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Re: Rifle barrel disposal [Re: Judd] #6821699 07/13/17 07:10 PM
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Originally Posted By: Judd
You can sell them for a little of nothing. Guys use them to make chamber seaters and depth gauges. I've kept mine because I have aspirations of owning a lathe someday and we'll need some practice barrels.


This and some gun smiths cut them into short pieces use them to make thread protectors.


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Re: Rifle barrel disposal [Re: ETXbuckman] #6821806 07/13/17 08:49 PM
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I have chunked a few of them because no one wanted them. They were all .270 and 30.06.


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Originally Posted By: FiremanJG
I might pound one into a knife one day.


I like your style JG

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Someone could be interested in buying it depending on caliber, gun model, length, etc....

what is it?


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Thanks for the information. I was afraid there may be some liability if I stuck it in the trash and someone pulled it out and used it for nefarious purposes. It's a stretch, yes, but people are crazy. I may just go ahead and put it up in the classifieds though.

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If you are worried about it being used, then cut, torch it, drill it, give it a salt bath and let rust, whatever to make it useless as a gun barrel. Then put it in the recycling.


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It makes a good tomato stake!


My friend uses them to stake out tree's.


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Originally Posted By: ETXbuckman
Thanks for the information. I was afraid there may be some liability if I stuck it in the trash and someone pulled it out and used it for nefarious purposes. It's a stretch, yes, but people are crazy. I may just go ahead and put it up in the classifieds though.


No different than if you throw a 2" pipe in the trash and somebody takes it build pipe bones with.


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Originally Posted By: FiremanJG
I might pound one into a knife one day.


Don't use a stainless barrel if you do. 416 stainless won't harden sufficiently to make a good blade.


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I've got a ss 300 ultra mag barrel that I couldn't give away. confused2


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Some guys will use discarded barrels to fabricate muzzle brakes. Maybe there's someone around who could use that barrel.


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Give it away. There's always somebody that will take them. It's pretty cheap for somebody to have one screwed on if there's is shot out

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Used one barrel to make 'wad knockers'. Hacksawed it into 6" pieces to drop down a shotgun barrel when a wad got stuck from a poor reload. Still have a model 70 barrel 30-06 I'd sell to someone that would pay the shipping on. Came off of the donor I turned into a 6.5x55.


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Originally Posted By: ChadTRG42
It makes a good tomato stake!


I like this idea.

Re: Rifle barrel disposal [Re: ETXbuckman] #6832727 07/24/17 09:00 PM
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sell for scrap


hold on Newt, we got a runaway
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First take the tin foil off your head then throw barrel in the trash can

Re: Rifle barrel disposal [Re: ETXbuckman] #6832772 07/24/17 09:38 PM
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Save it. You may want to put it back on that rifle. Stranger things have happened. confused2


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