Remington 700 Barrel removal
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griz
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It's done with a barrel clamp and an action wrench, but it's not as simple as screwing in a new one.
Jim Watson
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Removing a barrel is normally done with a barrel vise and an action wrench. You need the right wrench to keep from bending the action.
Sometimes a pair of wood blocks bored to clamp on the barrel and held in a heavy bench vise will do, sometimes it won't and you will have to have a real barrel vise to clamp tighter.
Replacing a barrel requires machining, one way or another.
The simplest of the over the counter replacement barrels from Brownell's are short chambered which means you have to have a reamer, headspace gauges, and some technique. There are measurement methods you can use to simplify the process, if you have the micrometers and gauges.
I don't think you can learn to rebarrel a rifle one question at a time on the net.
Get a print catalog from Brownell's, they have tools and books.
Sometimes a pair of wood blocks bored to clamp on the barrel and held in a heavy bench vise will do, sometimes it won't and you will have to have a real barrel vise to clamp tighter.
Replacing a barrel requires machining, one way or another.
The simplest of the over the counter replacement barrels from Brownell's are short chambered which means you have to have a reamer, headspace gauges, and some technique. There are measurement methods you can use to simplify the process, if you have the micrometers and gauges.
I don't think you can learn to rebarrel a rifle one question at a time on the net.
Get a print catalog from Brownell's, they have tools and books.
kaferhaus
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You can seriously screw up your rifle by trying to remove the barrel without the right tools. New barrels don't just screw on ready to shoot.
Some folks will tell you that you can finish ream a chamber by hand (including Brownell's) it takes a fine touch indeed to do this and you still need the proper lubricants and a way to keep the reamer absolutely straight while you're turning it.
by the time you buy the tools and gauges required, you'd be much better off paying a competent gunsmith to do it right. Ask around before you take it to one though.... many "smiths" are nothing but "jacklegs" that'll likely do no better job than you could with the right tools. Find one with a lathe and the proper tooling.
Not many good gunsmiths around anymore. And the ones that are good are 6months or so back logged and charge between 150-200bucks to fit a barrel.
I have a lathe and do my own.
Some folks will tell you that you can finish ream a chamber by hand (including Brownell's) it takes a fine touch indeed to do this and you still need the proper lubricants and a way to keep the reamer absolutely straight while you're turning it.
by the time you buy the tools and gauges required, you'd be much better off paying a competent gunsmith to do it right. Ask around before you take it to one though.... many "smiths" are nothing but "jacklegs" that'll likely do no better job than you could with the right tools. Find one with a lathe and the proper tooling.
Not many good gunsmiths around anymore. And the ones that are good are 6months or so back logged and charge between 150-200bucks to fit a barrel.
I have a lathe and do my own.
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