Hello,

One for all the engineers out there. Purely out of interest, how do you mount an hw break barrel in a lathe with the breech block still attached?

Can you poke the barrel right through the head stock, so that the breech clears the head? Failing that, how do they do it? I had a very short 99 barrel recrowned and shortened on a lathe but never understood how they did it. It would have been too short to put right through the head. Lots of people said it wasn't possible but clearely this person managed it. They did briefly explain how but I didn't understand over the phone and was in a rush at the time.

I have no lathe experience but I'm fascinated by how they do it?