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Offline Yukon454

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.25 Rimfire Conversion
« on: April 24, 2010, 02:38:41 PM »
Has anyone converted a Stevens .25 rimfire to .22 RF?

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Re: .25 Rimfire Conversion
« Reply #1 on: April 24, 2010, 03:24:57 PM »
i have a barrel i'm thinking of relining to 17 hmr.
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Re: .25 Rimfire Conversion
« Reply #2 on: April 25, 2010, 08:30:06 PM »
I would say it would be a piece of cake.  Larry
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Re: .25 Rimfire Conversion
« Reply #3 on: April 27, 2010, 06:42:52 AM »
Some of that may hinge on what model you're talaking about. Many are not capable of handling the 17HMR. They likely wouldn't fail catastrophocally but the acceleration of the wear(loosening) would be dangerous..
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