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Liberty Class
Introducing ...
Liberty Class
Please note: The work you see is completely handmade.
I rarely have inventory. The standard method of acquiring my work
is to join the Barnes Pneumatic Ledger. I'd love to make more
faster, but it would not be the same product.
Designed to shoot
#3 buckshot.
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These 25 caliber round
lead ball are inexpensive, easy to obtain, and may be ordered
right over the net. They are uniform, hard hitting, and effective.
Specs. as shown:
Barnes Liberty
XXV (100% handcrafted)
1). 7 1/2 pounds with
the scope and rings in place. (scope and rings not incl.)
2). Fill pressure 3,300
psi.
3). Power adjustable
(low settings for quiet shooting on suitable backyard or basement
ranges)
4). Barnes handmade
25 caliber barrel
5). Solid brass full
barrel shroud
6). Designed for #3
buckshot from Hornady
7). Gary's Choice Power
band: #3 buckshot (23.7 grains each @ 800 fps = 33.3 fpe)
8). Shots per fill
@ suggested 33.3 fpe - approx. 73 shots
9). Bolt action single
feed.
10). Crisp single stage
Barnes trigger.
11). Billet machined
aluminum components.
12). Seamless high
strength steel pressure tube
13). Quick fill front
nipple - standard Foster geometry
Note: In some pics, rifle shown has not
yet been blued. In others, it has been completed. All billet aluminum
is polished out. Solid brass shroud is polished out. Wood shown
has some figure, but is not special high priced blanks.
Liberty is not a
model currently available for order - other later models duplicate
it's prototype specifications. For
those models currently available for order - please link over
to the catalog page. Thanks.
Added 5-17-04 - Evening
Patio Session
I find that if I want
to shoot, I must ignore the facts: I don't have time. There are
things I should be doing. It looks like rain. It's getting late.
I'm tired ... etc.
We came home from dinner
at a small diner we enjoy. I said to myself ... "Go ahead
... live alittle ... ;?)
Here I'm practicing
for old age. Got the rocker thing going on the patio. I fear the
camera creates the "illusion" that my hair is thinning
... ahem!" Yes, as you can tell, the light was fading fast...
I'd hung up a heavy
rubber floor fatigue mat - about 1/2" thick by 3' sq. at
about 20 yards. There's a small alcove where the shop wraps around
an ancient weeping cherry tree. My first shot went "Twack
... tic .. tack!!!" Humm. 28fpe in 25 round ball goes right
thru 1/2" heavy rubber mats @ 20 yards. So I put up another
one to face the first.
Above is the target,
off the knee, from the rocker. Three shots @ 20 yards. Liberty
XXV shooting #3 Buckshot.
Kelly came out and
lit a candle. We moved the picnic table to gain a better seating
arrangement.
Now ... let's see ...
there's got to be a way ....
The human brain is
a wonderful thing. Yes ... we progressed rather quickly to the
cardboard box front rest.
It's serious dark now.
I tossed a drop light to shine on the target. As it starts to
rain, Kelly fires this group.
Three shots in the
dark. A very simple 4X shotgun scope - #3 buckshot off a box on
a picnic table. I don't bet against her...
We were rained out
and the competition called for darkness. However; we had a great
time and never refilled the rifle. When I took it into the shop
to clean and wipe it off with a wax cloth, I checked the chrono.
I'd had it set for approx. 735 fps - that's about 28 fpe. I'd
filled it only to 2,800 psi. It still had 2,350 psi left. It was
extremely quiet to shoot. Take a dry stick about the size of your
finger and snap it - that's similar to the sound of the rifle
firing. The ball thwacking the target is much louder.
Everything doesn't
have to be perfectly planned to have fun. ;?)
Earlier testing
on the page Liberty 2