Webley longbow barrel issue

[mattyw1987]

I picked up a early Turk longbow se today date of manufacture is 0707 and I was over the moon at first due to the condition been better than expected...

The mood soon changed as soon as I noticed the riffling looked like one of the Turkish workers chiseled it out with his teeth!

I was under the impression that they all used lothar Walther barrels? Has anyone else experienced this? Thanks.

[junglie]

you could try polishing the bore with solvol autosol & a pull through. worked for me in a chinese pcp with bad accuracy.

[mattyw1987]

It's was too bad for that it honestly looks like someone has tried to rifle the bore themselves, the lands are about .25 mm wide and the same deep and not uniform really does look a mess.

The pellets have nothing to grip and don't turn in the bore so it's basically a rough smooth bore.

[JLB]

Have you shot it to see if it will hold a group. Failing that it appears a new barrel is in order.

John

[leetrenchard]

Maybe an obvious thought, do the high quality barrels from the UK made longbows fiit Turk ones?

[Shed tuner]

one option is to drill it out and put in a barrel liner. The job itself is pretty easy, it's just finding a liner economically...

AS above though, I'd try polishing the bore first - I've had plenty of rough looking bores that have acheived more than accpetable levels of accuracy following this kind of treatment.