[TheForge] My Christmas Present to Me

[Jerry Smith]

Ries,

I have seen videos of rotary forging of cannon
barrels. It is a cool process.

My 10/22's scope cost nearly as much as the rifle,
which 25 years ago that scope would have been way more
expensive.

Jerry 
--- ries <ries at riesniemi.com> wrote:

> Jerry,
> the Ruger, like may modern barrels, is rotary
> forged.
> Only a couple of companies make the equipment to do
> this, and its  
> incredibly expensive, complicated, and way cool.
> It does Stainless steel as well- many of the
> stainless barrels are  
> rotary forged this way.
> 
> Here is an article about it.
> http://technology.calumet.purdue.edu/met/higley/ 
> NotesOnHammerForgedBarrels.pdf
> 
> Its a bit beyond hammer and anvil, thats for sure.
> 
> Here is the Austrian website-
> http://www.gfm.at/gfm/en/index.html
> 
> That looks like a very cool little rifle.
> 
> Its always amazing to me how cheap a gun like that
> can be sold for-
> Around $325 for that amount of machining and forging
> seems incredibly  
> cheap to me- I would charge more for a curtain rod.
> 
> Ries
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