Originally Posted By: Lloyd3
Just how practical is it to repair a bulge?....

If someone looks at stress/strain charts, as steel starts to go plastic, its strength exceeds its generic rating. It seems that thinning from bulging may be negligible. keith had mentioned earlier that cold working, one example maybe being bringing a bulge back down, likely increases hardness. If a good smith assesses the bulge and knows how to address it, why not? To me the most worrying desription of a classic gun barrel is 'mirror bores'.