Please help me identify this Gun barrel

[F Troop]

I've had this Gun barrel rolling around in the bottom of my tool box for 30+ years. It appears to be .45 cal. It is about 5" long and over an inch in diameter. It has rifling groves. Has anyone seen any thing like this. Is there any value here?

F Troop









Thanks for any input...

Anybody want to build an AW?

[Tank 57]

Unfinished 1911 barrel? Just a guess.

[G-forceJunkie]

Looks like an unfinished blank to me.

[MOONDAWG]

Looks like an unfinished blank to me.

.....ditto.

[CHS]

I'm going with a blank. Probably a cut-end from a finished piece since most blanks are not tapered or as short as that one.

[CHS]

Does it appear to be chambered, or does the rifling extend from end-to-end?

[F Troop]

Does it appear to be chambered, or does the rifling extend from end-to-end?

No chamber rifling end to end.

[CHS]

No chamber rifling end to end.

Then it's definitely a blank or cut-end from a blank. Chambering is usually the last thing that's done.

[bohoki]

wow almost an inch thick i might be tempted to buy one of those surplus 26mm all steel flare guns and make it fit

[F Troop]

I was told by the person I got it from it was a barrel for a Gatling Gun used in Vietnam on the helicopter " Puff The Magic Dragon ". He had a hole box of them. I don't know how true that is, thats why I was asking. I can't find anything that looks like it...

F Troop

[rero360]

I was told by the person I got it from it was a barrel for a Gatling Gun used in Vietnam on the helicopter " Puff The Magic Dragon ". He had a hole box of them. I don't know how true that is, thats why I was asking. I can't find anything that looks like it...

F Troop

Time for some critical thinking, do you think an M134 Gatling gun/ GAU-17 would have 5" barrels? I'll give you a hint

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