Alpha/Delta Wolf slug barrel

[larry069]

Hi everyone , I was going to wait till the first barrel was done and tested but I could not wait to tell everyone , so this is what I am doing , I bought a lathe and had custom tooling made up it took a lot of work getting everything and making shure it was the correct size and the rite tooling for the job , I am making slug barrels for the delta wolf that will be a direct replacement for the 23 inch barrel , so you can keep everything , I am using a LW polly 17.7 no choke as a test barrel and its the one I am working on rite now , its almost done I am going slow and checking everything as I go to make shure its all the same as the original , when its done I will test it out at the range and give you an up date with pics once its tested and everything works with out any problems I will start making and selling them with 1/16 twist or 1/17.7 and polly or standard barrel

 

[Solo1]

Hi everyone , I was going to wait till the first barrel was done and tested but I could not wait to tell everyone , so this is what I am doing , I bought a lathe and had custom tooling made up it took a lot of work getting everything and making shure it was the correct size and the rite tooling for the job , I am making slug barrels for the delta wolf that will be a direct replacement for the 23 inch barrel , so you can keep everything , I am using a LW polly 17.7 no choke as a test barrel and its the one I am working on rite now , its almost done I am going slow and checking everything as I go to make shure its all the same as the original , when its done I will test it out at the range and give you an up date with pics once its tested and everything works with out any problems I will start making and selling them with 1/16 twist or 1/17.7 and polly or standard barrelView attachment 15900View attachment 15901View attachment 15902View attachment 15903View attachment 15904

Good luck ive had several barrels made by gun smiths for the ghost and m3 none were anything to write home about.

 

[larry069]

Hi everyone sorry I have not given an update , my father inlaw passed away and I had to put things on hold , I should be finnishing up the barrel this weekend and testing it out .

 

[Danman]

Hi everyone sorry I have not given an update , my father inlaw passed away and I had to put things on hold , I should be finnishing up the barrel this weekend and testing it out .

Just seeing this now, my condolences.
Hopefully these work out for you. That's quite a thick looking barrel in the picture.
So your taking .177cal 600mm, slug appropriate twist rate, non choked L.W. barrels and making them work for the Daystate platforms, nice! If its a success do you plan to work on the bigger cals too?

 

[larry069]

its a .22 LW polly with a 17.7 twist , I had to turn the OD down and shorten it a little , I will be making other calibers later on once I get some .22’s done , once I test shoot it and see how it shoots I will post it and start working on a .22 1/16 twist rate barrel and see how that one shoots also

 

[larry069]

just finnished the barrel ! everything works good and the crony is reading but now my reg is stuck and not letting air in so I will have to clean it and hope that it works , I will go down to the range sat morning and see how it groups.

 

[Dogowski]

Hi everyone sorry I have not given an update , my father inlaw passed away and I had to put things on hold , I should be finnishing up the barrel this weekend and testing it out .

Sorry to hear about your loss. Our prayers are with you and your family.

 

[larry069]

thank you very much it means alot.

 

[larry069]

I should be getting my new reg tomorrow and with any luck get over to the range sunday for aome testing

 

[Dogowski]

I should be getting my new reg tomorrow and with any luck get over to the range sunday for aome testing

What was wrong with your other regulator? Inquiring minds want to know!

 

[larry069]

it was leaking and would not let air in from the bottle , it has been a problem for last few years AOA had to fix it once when the gun was only a year old it would not stay at the bar I set it at and creep up aoa fixed it ,worked for a while then it started to wander up and down so I took it out cleaned and greased it worked good for a while then it started giving me these problems so I gave up and bought a new one , its under warranty but they would only rebuild it and I have to ship it to them plus down time so I gave up and paid for a new one and I will rebuild this one later and keep for a spair

 

[larry069]

well looks like now I need to wait to next sat to do some shooting , I did not get my reg so I called aoa and they took my info and cc on monday 10/13 but did not place the order so it was placed friday and I will get it on wensday

 

[larry069]

I got the new reg and still having problems the new reg did the same thing as the old one and now leaks so it looks like it needs to go back to aoa and they will have to tear it apart

 

[larry069]

Hi everyone just giving an update I am still waiting for my gun to be fixed at AOA should not be to much longer , I did order a 1/16 twist barrel to work on and it will have a carbon fiber wrap , it should be ready by the time I get my gun back so I will have the 2 barrels to try out and see how they shoot , and a third barrel is on back order till the first of the year so hopeful one of them or all will shoot slugs good .

 

[larry069]

I am back and with an update , sorry it took so long I had to put it on hold for a little while I got my gun back and shot the new barrel the LW polly no choke 1/17 twist the first shot at 22 yds I did not even see it hit the paper so I shot 2 more times I was using 20gn howler slugs I found all 3 holes it was about a 12 inch group checked the cronny it was 735 fps so I made an ajustment and did 3 more shots and it was a tight clover almost one hole and fps was 915 then I shot more groups and every group got bigger by the 5th it was about 3/4 the fps still same not shure what was going on so I went to other slugs and weights and size and fps but it only got worse so I am going to give it a good cleaning and try that , I did finnish the second barrel today and will bring it with me and test it , its a 8grove standerd .216 barrel no choke 1/16.35 twist , I am also working on the 1/16 twist liner that I will carbon fiber wrap I hope to have it done by tomorrow and get all 3 to the range by sunday .

 

[Soren Drost]

The LW polygon slug barrel should be 1:17.7 twist with a mild choke and 6 grooves

Probably need to test at a series of velocity from maybe 880 FPS to 1000 FPS to find the optimal speed for a given slug

 

[larry069]

I was able to go shooting for a few hours sunday and I first shot the 17.7 no chock LW polly barrel , I tried everything from 17.5 to 24.8 nsa in .217/.2175/.2165/.216 and the groups were not very good , not one would give a nice tight group at any speed , the other barrel a .216 with a 16.35 twist and 8 grove only liked .2175 and I only had 3 in that size and only one looked good it was a 23g at 920fps , I think it might shoot better with a .218 or .219 I will have to order a few and see.

 

[larry069]

I did also tried to carbon wrap a barrel but that was not so good so I will make a sleave out of aluminium soon and try that barrel , and I am going to order 2 CZ barrel blanks I found a place that has them alfa presision

 

[OverwatchPrecision]

Why don’t you order the original Daystate LW 28” slug barrel 1/17.7 shocked? It shoots well! H&N 25, 27, 30, 38, 40gr in .217 and Altaros 40gr

 

[larry069]

its alot of money around 1000 dollars , and I want to have a direct replacement for the 23 inch so you can use your cronny and shroud for less than half the price and you can still keep the gun short and compact