Comments on: The Cut-Rifling Process — A Short History and Demonstration https://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/2018/12/the-cut-rifling-process-a-short-history-and-demonstration/ from AccurateShooter.com Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:06:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.26 By: Grant https://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/2018/12/the-cut-rifling-process-a-short-history-and-demonstration/comment-page-1/#comment-56322 Fri, 28 Dec 2018 13:06:40 +0000 http://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/?p=60917#comment-56322 Sadly, Barrett (Boots) may never produce another barrel again.

]]> By: Laurie Holland https://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/2018/12/the-cut-rifling-process-a-short-history-and-demonstration/comment-page-1/#comment-56317 Wed, 26 Dec 2018 17:32:19 +0000 http://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/?p=60917#comment-56317 As an update on my February comment, UK company Sassen Engineering has recently started to make cut-rifled barrels as they promised. Initial reports are very good.

]]> By: David Lawson https://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/2018/12/the-cut-rifling-process-a-short-history-and-demonstration/comment-page-1/#comment-54527 Mon, 26 Feb 2018 04:43:31 +0000 http://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/?p=60917#comment-54527 Fascinating stuff, the true skills of yesteryear are not so outdated as we think. Try finding a good blacksmith!!

]]> By: mark https://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/2018/12/the-cut-rifling-process-a-short-history-and-demonstration/comment-page-1/#comment-54522 Sun, 25 Feb 2018 17:53:31 +0000 http://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/?p=60917#comment-54522 will be new best barrels made with electroerosion in near future?
http://ritterstark.com/

]]> By: Laurie Holland https://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/2018/12/the-cut-rifling-process-a-short-history-and-demonstration/comment-page-1/#comment-54520 Sun, 25 Feb 2018 15:58:26 +0000 http://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/?p=60917#comment-54520 Border Barrels was sold and its workforce at least partly dispersed, one member emigrating to New Zealand. The ‘Border Barrels’ name went to a new outfit in the Birmingham area of the English Midlands – Sassen Engineering, producing barrels under the ‘Sassen’ brand name which were initially 100% button rifled with promises of cut-rifling options at a later date. (I’m unsure of whether any have appeared as yet.) Some former Border Barrels employees led by Dennis Groom and Dan Brough have remained in the Scottish Borders area and set up a new barrel-making company called GB Barrels and (Query?) employing some of Dr Geoff Kolbe’s (the founder and proprietor of the original Border |Barrels company) original machinery including the Sine Bar rifling machine. GB Barrels only makes cut-rifled barrels and is building a good reputation in the UK for quality products. Geoff Kolbe meanwhile has by no means retired from the shooting game. Any consulting type work he does for Sassen Engineering or whoever aside, he has set up a new company of hos own called BBT Ltd to make chamber reamers and other gunsmithing tools and gauges. An increasing number of UK and European gunsmiths go there now rather than to American suppliers. Websites are:

https://www.facebook.com/BorderBarrels/
https://www.facebook.com/GBBarrelsLtd/
http://www.bbt.scot/about_us.htm

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