No, he would go by his place and pull a new barrel out of the safe.
We bought 750 brand new barrels to the tune of $100,000.
The new barrels, from France, cost between $500 and $600 apiece, the old ones about $150 each.
Put on a new barrel, and your gun no longer shoots where it used to.
Clankings from up above said somebody else wanted to investigate the new barrel, too.
Using 100 new barrels, they fired a million rounds without a single failure.
He uses the new barrels (what we know as tanks) to break through.
It's a good batch, but I'll not be needing the new barrels.
What he didn't approve of were the new Confederate barrels.
But this wasn't a new barrel of the same old style.