True-Flite NZ · Rifle barrels · Gisborne, New Zealand
Good rifles start
with a great barrel.
We make button-rifled stainless and carbon-wrapped rifle barrels in Gisborne, and build and fit them under the same roof. Price your barrel online, plan a custom rifle or book your rifle in for gunsmithing.
True-Flite carbon-wrapped barrel · Made in Gisborne
Start here
What are you after?
Pick the closest match. Each one takes you straight to prices, details and the right form.
A new barrel
Choose calibre, twist, contour, fluting and finish, see it drawn to scale and priced, then send your order.
Open the Barrel Builder ↗ Custom riflesA complete rifle
A dream build from scratch or a full rebuild of your rifle. See 12 recent builds and request a quote.
See custom rifles ↗ GunsmithingWork on my rifle
Rebarrels, accurising, fluting, threads, Cerakote and repairs, with prices. Book your job online.
Gunsmithing services ↗ OpticsA Nightforce scope
The Nightforce range from SHV to ATACR, fitted free to your rifle when you buy it from us.
Nightforce scopes ↗The barrel range
Three ways to build
around a True-Flite.
Stainless for your next hunting or target rifle, carbon when carry weight matters, or Aerocell fluting for a barrel that looks as good as it shoots. Prices are fitted to your rifle, incl GST.
Ultra-Match barrels
Fitted from $1,750
Button-rifled 416R stainless, .20 to .50 calibre, in sporter, target, Palma and F-Class contours up to 34″.
Explore stainless barrels ↗Carbon barrels
Fitted $2,400
A True-Flite stainless core wrapped in Kilwell carbon: a stiff, substantial profile with less weight to carry.
Explore carbon barrels ↗Aerocell fluting
Fitted $2,250
Our signature honeycomb pockets with curved floors and radiused corners, machined in Gisborne.
See Aerocell ↗Barrel Builder
Build and price
your barrel online.
Pick every detail, watch the barrel drawn to scale with its estimated weight, and see the price change as you go. Send the finished build straight to the workshop.
- BarrelUltra-Match stainless or carbon-wrapped, fitted or as a blank
- Calibre & twist.20 to .50 calibre, with the chamberings for each
- Contour & lengthStandard contours or your own taper, up to 34″
- Fluting & finishStraight, spiral, diamond or Aerocell; bead blast or Cerakote
- Price & weightLive price incl GST and estimated weight as you build
Recent builds
The results speak.
A few of the rifles that left our workshop recently. See all 12, with photos and full specs, on the Custom Rifles page.
10 shots, one hole
.25 Creedmoor PRS
Impact 737R on a 26″ True-Flite barrel, 1:7.5 twist, in an MDT ACC Elite chassis. 100 m.
0.136″ at 100 m
7 PRC · first carbon wrap
A trued Remington 700 on the very first True-Flite carbon-wrapped barrel. Three shots, measured.
8 matching rifles
Bynuna Target Rifles
A batch of target rifles on Impact and Pristine actions, each with a 30–32″ engraved True-Flite barrel.
The people behind the barrels
New Zealand roots.
Hands-on expertise.
True-Flite began making rifle barrels in 1995. Today owner Anthony Walsh runs the business from Gisborne, bringing a Mechanical Engineering Trade Certificate, NZQA gunsmithing qualifications and more than 15 years of machining to every barrel and build.
Whether you are a hunter, target shooter, gunsmith or rifle builder, your enquiry comes straight to the person who makes the product.
Meet True-Flite ↗Outside New Zealand?
Barrel blanks shipped to Australia, the UK, Europe, Asia and the Middle East, with export permits handled in-house.
Export orders ↗Find an agent.
Prefer to deal locally? Our agents in Australia, the Netherlands and beyond can help.
Worldwide agents ↗Do your homework.
Check the calibres, twists, chamberings and contours we offer before you build.
Chamberings ↗Your next rifle starts here
Tell us what you have in mind.
A new barrel. A lighter hunting build. A rifle you have wanted for years. Tell us what you have and where you want to take it, and we will turn the idea into a clear spec and a quote.
anthony@trueflite.co.nz · Unit B, 381 Palmerston Road, Gisborne