z1r Posted March 17, 2022 Report Share Posted March 17, 2022 My son shot my 9.5" Single Six and loved the long barrel. So, given his penchant for longer barrels, I rebarreled his single six using a 10/22 barrel that I shortened, threaded, indexed the sight, cut a new forcing cone, and drilled and tapped for the ejector rod housing. Finished out at 11.5" of pure fun. I didn't take any pics of the single six project but these pics of my rebarreling a 45 Vaquero are essentially the same: Start by making a barrel bush for the vise out of 1.75" aluminum bar stock. Bore the hole to appropriate size for the barrel, then split the bushing. Make inserts for the action wrench to fit the frame: Measure to get your shank length to establish proper cylinder gap: After timing sight, cut new forcing cone and trim shank to achieve .002" cylinder gap. End result: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Racepres Posted March 17, 2022 Report Share Posted March 17, 2022 ... My Bitter half was lookin over my Shoulder, and exclaimed that she was led to believe that the 9.5 bbl on her 32, was all that we could get!!! I gotta watch what she sees on my Computer!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
z1r Posted March 17, 2022 Author Report Share Posted March 17, 2022 Funny, I said something similar to mine! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sonic1 Posted March 18, 2022 Report Share Posted March 18, 2022 did mine on ruger mark 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Racepres Posted March 18, 2022 Report Share Posted March 18, 2022 ^^^ IDK... at what point is it Overkill??? I may have rifles with shorter barrels... but... I don't like 10" barrels on Contenders either... Certainly Interesting ...I'll give ya that!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
z1r Posted March 18, 2022 Author Report Share Posted March 18, 2022 I picked this up recently and was thinking, I may want to swap that 10/22 barrel over onto this one: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sonic1 Posted March 18, 2022 Report Share Posted March 18, 2022 yes its over kill { just to make people say WTF } Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Racepres Posted March 19, 2022 Report Share Posted March 19, 2022 Overkill can be Fun... Hell... I have an 8 second DragBike!!!! Sorry Z.... I don't do Scopes on 22's tho... ever since I got that 10" Contender barrel... The one that never... Ever, misses... we use it to "test" ... is it me? or the gun" Or is that a 256?? Matters Not... a good lookin Rig anyway!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
z1r Posted March 19, 2022 Author Report Share Posted March 19, 2022 This one's a .22, just happened to luck into a box of .256's for my contender at the same time. My 9.5" will consitently break clay pigeons at 75 yds with the open sights but the scope increases that to 100 even with the short barrel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr.Hess Posted March 19, 2022 Report Share Posted March 19, 2022 Back when I was shooting my Contenders, my 223 Super 14 barrel with a 3-9 extended eye relieve Burris was really something. At 100 yards, I would shoot the center out of a clay pigeon, leaving the ring intact, then shoot the ring. I got 2 targets out of one that way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Racepres Posted March 19, 2022 Report Share Posted March 19, 2022 Yup Contenders shoot... My 7TCU 10" with that Burris scope... will shoot like that... on a good (great) day even with my Cast!!!!! BTW My 10" 357 Herrett (AKA 357 FireBall) will outshoot any other firearm I gots... But is is a to shoot for very many rounds... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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