Yesterday I was able to obtain a Boots Obermeyer 375 caliber barrel blank. A Obermeyer barrel blank to modern rifle guys is in many ways as a unfitted Pope barrel blank would be to single shot guys of days past.
This barrel was made in the early 1980's and was meant for a custom rifle build for a famous TV star of the same era, by my friend who was a noted custom gunmaker. However after all the pieces for the build were acquired the customer decided to change caliber to 7mm Mag. The barrel has since languished in the inventory of the gunmaker. Yesterday I revisited my friend after 15 years and he offered it to me as he no longer is working on guns. I snapped it up.
It is most interesting in the contour as the barrel was machine to be swamped. The muzzle diameter is slightly larger then the diameter 6" back from the muzzle. It may be the only barrel with this contour that Mr. Obermeyer did.
Now when I finish my Steyr built I might have another project in the wings.
