Button rifling Castpics（按钮搜索Castpics）.pdf

Button rifling... is variously attributed - the Germans apparently did some experimentation with the process before WW2. Remingtons Mike Walker is credited with developing the process and instituting it at Remington during WW2, where it was used to rifle military contract barrels. The decisive factor in instituting this method for military barrel manufacture was the much lower cost in time and money for rifling each barrel, and the fact that quality was sufficient for the military requirements. After the war, Remington and other major industry players further developed the process, and, due to the much lower cost in tooling, independent barrel makers followed - some of them are now quite well-known for best- quality barrels made by buttoning, and, of course, many more trade-grade buttoned barrels are also produced by other makers. FWIW, instrumented study of rifling pitch variations in buttoned barrels can be a real eye-opener, making one wonder how such barrels could shoot at all well (though, of course, the best match-grade buttoned barrels show minimal variation, or, sometimes, a gaining tendency) - I assure you that no modern lead screw could be produced or accepted which showed a fraction of the pitch variance seen in buttoned barrels - and Ill see your UMich mathematician and raise you my metallurgical engineer/boss at the barrel mine for additional testimony ref: rifle barrels, per-se :- As I said before, lapping is done in rifle barrels to correct minor surface finish imperfections and, sometimes, small dimensional variations, but will testify that youd lap yourself (and the barrel) to death before correcting any major boo-boo. The deep-hole drilling machine in our shop is a Diamond - a more-or-less exact copy of the Pratt and Whitney machines you rebuilt for Ruger. Ruger used to have (may still have) a Pratt and Whitney sine-bar rifling machine (completely rebuilt) and exactly like ours,