5mm Remington I need a chamber reamer or a gun smith with one

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Hi Gentlemen ....Or Ladies of course

I have a good quantity of 5mm Remington rim fire magnum ammo but my Remington 591 has at best marginal accuracy.

I would like to re barrel it. So I need either a reamer for the chamber or a Gun Smith that has one.

I'd really appreciate any info , if you could forward it to me.

Thanks

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You would be far better just selling the ammo and using the funds to pay for a new barrel in a standard chambering. It's your money, but a 5mm rimfire is basically worthless due to ammo scarcity, so your just dumping good money into it for no real gain. It's incredibly unlikely that any gunsmith would have that reamer, due to the fact that it's an obscure non-reloadable cartridge. No demand whatsoever.

Breakdown of the costs:
$220 USD + Shipping, taxes, duty etc on a PT&G reamer
$300-500 CAD on a barrel
$200-400 for installation, more if the receiver needs threading as well.

You're looking at spending $800 to $1300 and generate exactly zero value. Spend your money on more productive ventures.
 
Blastattack said:
You would be far better just selling the ammo and using the funds to pay for a new barrel in a standard chambering. It's your money, but a 5mm rimfire is basically worthless due to ammo scarcity, so your just dumping good money into it for no real gain. It's incredibly unlikely that any gunsmith would have that reamer, due to the fact that it's an obscure non-reloadable cartridge. No demand whatsoever.

Breakdown of the costs:
$220 USD + Shipping, taxes, duty etc on a PT&G reamer
$300-500 CAD on a barrel
$200-400 for installation, more if the receiver needs threading as well.

You're looking at spending $800 to $1300 and generate exactly zero value. Spend your money on more productive ventures.
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This ^^^^ In spades.

Define "a good quantity". Crates? A couple dozen rounds? A dude over on the Rimfire sub forum is looking for some ammo.

Sell your ammo for the $2 per round it seems to draw for the desperate and dumb, put a .22 barrel on the gun and make it a .22 mag.

Maybe a .17 barrel and risk owning another generation of orphans in a few years with the rim fire .17 Winchester Mag.

Smart money is (if you are desperate to spend a bunch of money) to buy the prints from James Calhoon and convert the gun to a CF. Means building a new front half of the bolt, threading the receiver for a screwed in barrel.

Those guns were proof to 60Ksi when they were built, capable of much higher pressures than they were used for, and make a pretty decent small bolt action. And, with a re-loadable round, you won't ever be screwed on ammo availability in the future.

Too bad your barrel is crap, as there is a pretty good selection of .20 cal bullets out there for reloading.
 
trevj said:
Smart money is (if you are desperate to spend a bunch of money) to buy the prints from James Calhoon and convert the gun to a CF. Means building a new front half of the bolt, threading the receiver for a screwed in barrel.

Those guns were proof to 60Ksi when they were built, capable of much higher pressures than they were used for, and make a pretty decent small bolt action. And, with a re-loadable round, you won't ever be screwed on ammo availability in the future.

Too bad your barrel is crap, as there is a pretty good selection of .20 cal bullets out there for reloading.
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In late 90' when 5mmR ammo went to $1+ ea the Rem rifles for them could be bought for $50 or so.
Never heard of James Calhoon prints but IIRC Frank De Haas in "Bolt Rifle Action" book was talking about the conversion in the 80'.
I bought hand full of them (4?-5?) and converted them mostly to 22 mag, 22-30Carbine and 22 Hornet.
Still keep one LH in 22 K Hornet with 2x power Redfield scout scope.
Six rear locking lugs plus bolt handle as a safety lug is plenty strong for any of those calibers.
Front receiver can be threaded with 3/4" NC no problem instead barrel being pinned to receiver in two places.
GR8 2c worth....
 
gunrunner8 said:
In late 90' when 5mmR ammo went to $1+ ea the Rem rifles for them could be bought for $50 or so.
Never heard of James Calhoon prints but IIRC Frank De Haas in "Bolt Rifle Action" book was talking about the conversion in the 80'.
I bought hand full of them (4?-5?) and converted them mostly to 22 mag, 22-30Carbine and 22 Hornet.
Still keep one LH in 22 K Hornet with 2x power Redfield scout scope.
Six rear locking lugs plus bolt handle as a safety lug is plenty strong for any of those calibers.
Front receiver can be threaded with 3/4" NC no problem instead barrel being pinned to receiver in two places.
GR8 2c worth....
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Yeah, if the barrel was worth keeping, I would have suggested a .20 Hornet.

Some folks even when they are capable of making stuff, seem incapable of winging it on the conversion, so as i understood it, Calhoon provided a set of drawings that, if followed, worked out OK.

Great little action and very much over built for what it ended up chambered in, so it works a treat for a bunch of the small bore, small cartridge, chamberings, many based off the Hornet case.

For cheap, I would buy one to convert, but many of the guys that have them think a lot too highly of their value. I certainly would not throw away any money on restoring or repairing one in 5mm.
 
I inherited my grandfathers Remington 5mm rifle along with 10 boxes of original Rem 5mm ammo. Canada Ammo had a bunch of the Centurion/Aquila stuff about 6 years ago and I picked up a case of it just to have it.

My grandfather is the one who got me into shooting so I keep the rifle and the ammo for his memory and shoot a cat with it now and then as Grandfather hated cats. The Rem rifle is of poor quality even though it is mint condition. Accuracy is well within minute of ground hog which is what he purchased it for. If it hadn't been owned by him I would have disposed of the gun and sold off the ammo years ago. As there are far better rifles and rim fire chambering's presently out there.

I wouldn't spend a plug nickel rebarreling that gun as others have pointed out it is simply not worth it.
 
There were only 2 Remingtons made in 5mm........poor quality? In mint condition? Contradictory statements. Both guns were quality ,one a tube feed the other by magazine.Would one of the "wonder 17's work with a take off barrel?
 
mbogo3 said:
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Even if he could get the brass, his barrel is crap anyway.

I'll stick to my call to sell the ammo, and spend the money on something nice. Even as a known poor shooter, the action has some value. The ammo is worth stupid money, in my opinion, and represents an opportunity to extract some value from the deal.
If there is enough of it, in any case.

My view is definitely flavoured by that I would be able to do my own work if I had it, and have the odd barrel squirrelled away just for such opportunities, but I do think in the long run, switching off the barrel, possibly converting the bolt and threading the action, is going to be a better long term path to happiness with the project.
 
mbogo3 said:
There were only 2 Remingtons made in 5mm........poor quality? In mint condition? Contradictory statements. Both guns were quality ,one a tube feed the other by magazine.Would one of the "wonder 17's work with a take off barrel?
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The one I have is magazine fed. The rifle in my opinion is a cheaply made, poor quality gun. But it is in like new condition non the less. It is only a contradictory statement in your view.
 
mrgoat said:
The one I have is magazine fed. The rifle in my opinion is a cheaply made, poor quality gun. But it is in like new condition non the less. It is only a contradictory statement in your view.
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I gotta agree re: cheaply made. At least, they certainly didn't put the effort into making it into anything that resembled the engineering that went into the action itself, and it's capabilities.

I had read a report that quoted a Remington engineer as saying that the action was easily able to withstand a 60Ksi pressure load, but it got a pinned on barrel, and economy grade fit and finish for accoutrements and woodwork. That it also got hung with the 5mm cartridge which didn't exactly take the world by storm, also was another albatross around it's commercial neck. Sorta good idea, killed by marketing it in a completely wrong direction.

They did have a rep for having better than average barrels generally, though. Or so many of the guys online that have or have had them, say.
 
I like different stuff, and collected all the "MM" remingtons. I like my 5mm and it shoots the newer ammo good like 3/4" at 100yrds. The older green rem close to 1.1/4 if I remember.

If you have lots of ammo id look for a different rifle as rebarrel would be 600plus and rifles are 350ish. First thing I'd do is take it apart and clean everything, check screws and rings and clean the barrel real good and see what happens.
 
Cabellas in Saskatoon has a nice 5mm with ammo for sale. Basically the package is priced for what the ammo is worth. Definitely a cheaper option than rebarrelling yours.
 
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