GUNSMITHING SERVICES: Barrel Fluting

Description

LRI offers a broad selection of barrel fluting options to suit a variety of tastes and weight reduction needs.

If weight reduction is your goal, these are the most aggressive patterns we offer:

• Pattern X
• Murder Hornet

Pattern “A” and “B” explained:

Important notes: 

• Fluting finished barrels.  Fluting requires rock-solid machine workholding.  Because of this, finished barrels (coated, blued, parkerized, etc) are almost certain to become marked/scratched during the process.   LRI will not accept any liability if your barrel is damaged in this way.
• Ceracoat before fluting.  Coating a barrel blank before fluting never works.  The workholding always scratches the coated surface when the barrel is rotated.
• Fluting before or after a barrel is fitted.  From a manufacturing perspective, it is better to flute your barrel after it has been fitted to a receiver.  It costs less to thread and chamber to the receiver as it is far easier to install the barrel when you don’t have to worry about timing to a flute.

LRI Murderhornet in process: