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Offline carlsflh

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cost to shorten barrel
« on: November 04, 2012, 05:57:17 AM »
i ended up with a 20"223 bullberry yesteday from the gun show and was wondering what the cost is to shorten the barrel to 14"the barrel has a 1" scratch in the blueing near the muzzel. was thinking about selling it but now i'm thinking about shorting this barrel and selling my factory 14"223 i'm going to call bullberry monday morning i also know a couple of master machinest/gunsmiths that i can try to get ahold of thanks carl
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Re: cost to shorten barrel
« Reply #1 on: November 04, 2012, 06:29:19 AM »
i dont think that it would cost a lot $ 75 or so cut and recrown
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Re: cost to shorten barrel
« Reply #2 on: November 04, 2012, 06:44:28 AM »
i'm hoping to get it done for under 100.00 i'll just cold blue the crown to save the cost of reblueing the whole brrel
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Re: cost to shorten barrel
« Reply #3 on: November 04, 2012, 12:43:53 PM »
It is not too difficult to cut and recrown a barrel.  You could always do it yourself.
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Re: cost to shorten barrel
« Reply #4 on: November 04, 2012, 02:00:55 PM »
what would you use to cut the crown with  ? i know that i could shorten the barrel myself
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Re: cost to shorten barrel
« Reply #5 on: November 04, 2012, 04:03:24 PM »
You may be able to rent a muzzle chamfer/muzzle facing tool.  Perhaps someone on the forum has one available?  If not, Midway, Brownells, or one of the other suppliers have them.  Myself, I have used a round stone and then a brass screw, coated with abrasive paste and chucked in an electric drill.  I had excellent results.
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Re: cost to shorten barrel
« Reply #6 on: November 05, 2012, 06:24:56 AM »
well i called bullberry this morning and to have them shorten , recrown and touch up the blueing on  the barrel is going to cost around 70.00 plus shipping both ways and a 5-6 week turnaround . after watching several vidios on utube on recrowning  i'm really tempted to try it myself
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Re: cost to shorten barrel
« Reply #7 on: November 05, 2012, 09:00:19 AM »
Check out the how to videos on Midway USA,  Brother Larry shows how to cut , then recrown the barrel.
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Re: cost to shorten barrel
« Reply #8 on: November 05, 2012, 10:31:20 AM »
those videos were some of the one i watched just got done talking to a machinest buddy and he said he has the stuff to do it so i'm going to go over to his house tonight i forgot that  i had him cut and thread  a ruger mk1 barrel for a comp.and suppressor[still haven't bought one yet ] a year ago or so
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Re: cost to shorten barrel
« Reply #9 on: November 06, 2012, 12:10:52 AM »
If the scratch is at the muzzle, why not polish and blue the scratch? A cut and crown would be better at 16" to retain the carbine potential don't you think?
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Re: cost to shorten barrel
« Reply #10 on: November 06, 2012, 06:41:45 AM »
well went over to my buddys last night and we cut and recrowned the barrel decided to shorten the barrel to 16"that way i could still make it  into a carbine by getting a stock . at 16" it fells like it's the same weight as the 14" factory barrel . i thought he was going to use the lathe, but we cut the barrel with a cut off saw then used a 90 degree cutter to square up the muzzel then a 18 degree cutter to cut the crown  and we did a finial polishing of the crown with a 30 caliber bullet in a drill using laping compound just got done touching up the blueing hopefully i can get up in the woods to see how it shoots in the next few days
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Re: cost to shorten barrel
« Reply #11 on: November 06, 2012, 08:58:49 AM »
I'm betting this barrel is going to perform just fine.
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Re: cost to shorten barrel
« Reply #12 on: November 06, 2012, 10:42:42 AM »
Quote from: chiefs50 on November 06, 2012, 08:58:49 AM
I'm betting this barrel is going to perform just fine.
i'm sure it will the crown came out better looking than my factory 223 barrels why is there so many diffeent crown styles on the factory barrels?  my 223 looks like it was cut off square  and barely has any chamfer on it  my 41mag and my 30-30 both have a slight counter bore and slightly rounded muzzel
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