357 Herrett

Paul Gauthier

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I have a 30 Herrett barrel for my Contender and I have worked with it some it is still not shooting as I would like it to. So I want to make a 357 Herrett barrel for my TCR-87. To those of you who may have this caliber what boolit (should I be using the word boolit on this site?) weight do you like. I am thinking something around 180-200 grain. The barrel will be 24-26 inch, have not considered twist yet, any suggestions?
 

fiver

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Boolit is fine we all understand the meaning.
I use when I am talking about both a jacketed bullet and a cast boolit to keep things clear..

for a 35 cal barrel with the capacity of the Herret or the 357 max a 180gr rcbs silhouette type is probably hard to beat.
I would also look at their 200gr bullet everyone uses in the 35 rem and 358 win.
cast doesn't have problems opening like bullets with copper wrapped around them do at various velocity's.
 

JSH

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I was curious how he was going to tackle this. I would guess build the action block and thread the barrel into it?
Been so long since I have had my hands on one don't know how much "meat" would be on there for boring and threading.
Friend of a friend has a CNC set up. He was pretty sure he could make up some blocks with not to much trouble, that was several years back.
My interest has stirred, fellow called me a week ago with one of the TCR's, several barrels and accessories, all new unfired. I could buy a pretty good truck for what he wanted for it. Have no idea how he got my phone number as I have been out of the TC collectors circle for a long time.
Jeff
 

Paul Gauthier

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Yes it has been a while since I posted this thread, sorry about that. I have not gone ahead as yet with this barrel but I hope to get to it in 2019. At 70 years old I am not as fast at getting things done as I used to be and priorities must be done first.

I will machine the monoblock and will be threading this one, the other two I made were pinned just like the originals, I really don't like that method. I will try to get pics when I get to it.

Here is a pic of one during the machine work.


and one when completed
 
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