How difficult?

[Austin from NC]

How hard is it to rechamber a 22hornet to k hornet in a break barrel, and what else can you rechamber to easily?
       Austin

[greer]

   I rechambered a H&R 22 Hornet to K-Hornet a few years ago. I believe I did it on a lathe but you could probably do a fine job by just hand turning the reamer. You can rent a reamer and headspace gauges from Elk Ridge Reamer Rentals. I would get a piloted reamer with two or three different pilots so you get a good fit to the bore. You won't be removing much metal at all. There may be some old hands chime in later.  Good Luck.                             greer

[TNBilly]

Check out the "GBO Reamers" sticky in the NEF/Handi forum.  If you want to give the reaming a try Tim (Quickdtoo) has all the instructions for you there.  It's quite easy to do really.  A good solid vise and some cutting oil is the most of what you need.  Pays to be a little gentle/careful the first time, again, Tim has really good suggestions he includes when he ships the reamer to help out.  The worst that might happen is the chamber might need a little light polishing right at the transition point between the original chamber and the new.  I think a lot of the time the factories push the reaming pretty hard and the chamber tends to be a tad os right at that point.

Ron