BSA Rifles

Bsa air ries | Bsa R10

After deep hole drilling the barrels are rifled on a cold swaging machine where the barrel blank is passed between 6 rotating hammers, each weighing approximately 20lbs, over a specially machined tapered mandrel. To swage a single blank takes over 35,000 hammer blows. The action of this cold swaging increases the length of the barrel by 15%; work hardens the surface of the rifling, refines the grain structure of the steel, and produces a mirror like finish. The BSA air rifles tapered mandrels are made from specially formulated tool steel, which is manufactured in small batches under laboratory-controlled conditions. It is then CNC machined to the most exacting tolerances to produce the finished mandrels, each of which costs well over £1,000 but is capable of producing several thousand barrels.

The form of the rifling is reproduced as a mirror image on the mandrel. The swaging machine is able to accurately position the mandrel between the centre line of the hammers, and by setting its position up or down its tapered length, the size of the hammered bore of the rifling can be adjusted to very fine limits.

A further big advantage of the cold swaging process is that it can be used to produce a "natural" choke at one end of the barrel of BSA air rifles. The normal method of choking is to finish the barrel and then squeeze the outside diameter to reduce the bore size, but in some circumstances this can distort the pattern of the rifling. However with the BSA R10 method the rifling form is reproduced perfectly from the impression on the mandrel, with the bore gradually decreasing very slightly in diameter to give a perfect choke with considerable benefits in accuracy.

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