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Wacky barrel sleeving idea?

Cryo: many barrels are drilled slightly off center. Then they "bend" them straight. As a skinny barrel, particularly, heats up, it returns to its' original shape due to stress. Cryo relieves that stress permanently according to them.
 
I was looking to experiment a little. I thought through the idea and concluded that aluminum would be the best material to try because of it's lite weight and heat conducting properties. The cost of a furnace alone would be more than a new barrel. I'll think about the duct tape. All I need would be some unbendable cleaning rods to wrap onto the barrel.;)
 
Wrap the barrel with aluminum ceiling tile hanger wire ($7) place a pvc sleeve over it with holes drilled to inject with silicone. There's your out-of-the-box thinking!
 
I read some time ago about a little insert that is installed into the stock a few inches back from the fore end. It has internal threads and a threaded pin inside with a nylon tip and is way to add tension the barrel with a little upward pressure. I thought that if you used 2 and had them so that they were 10 -20 degrees either way from plumb you could push up and cradle the barrel in between the adjustable inserts. Many thin barrel hunting rifles came with a wood pad in the stock to tension the barrel, the thing I described would just be adjustable.
 
A fellow I knew was a bit of a jack leg gunsmith of sorts. He had a mauser barrel which shot pretty good but he figured more weight would be better. He cut an old 12 gauge shotgun barrel to length then slid it over the rifle barrel. He poured plastic steel epoxy into the gap and filled it full. I don't know what this might have done to heat retention but it actually shot a bit better for him. I thought it was kind of a mickey mouse system, myself, but it worked out for him. WH
 
I'm always curious about the various tension/compression barrel setups. Say Mr Lambert, would you be able to definitively say that there are cases where a tension/compression setup allowed a barrel to shoot better than it otherwise would've with tuning? Ie improving the peak potential accuracy that the barrel was capable of by itself. The BR community seems to have mixed opinion on this topic.
 
jbhotrod said:
I'm always curious about the various tension/compression barrel setups. Say Mr Lambert, would you be able to definitively say that there are cases where a tension/compression setup allowed a barrel to shoot better than it otherwise would've with tuning? Ie improving the peak potential accuracy that the barrel was capable of by itself. The BR community seems to have mixed opinion on this topic.
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I wouldn't have a clue, never tried it.
 
Eddie Harren said:
"The BR community seems to have mixed opinion on this topic."

I don't believe a word of that! You mean to say that the BR community does not wholeheartedly agree on this subject, or any other for that matter.
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Eddie I don't think the entire BR community could even agree on the existence of matter LOL
 
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