I have a savage that i've rebarreled a few times. I moved to iqaluit recently and am wanting to get the thing ready for upcoming shooting competitions. I left my barrel wrench and action wrench in the shop back home and want to get this thing off soon so was wondering how you do it with rope? I do have my nut wrench... just nothing else.
Barrel removal with rope?
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gunrunner8
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- Kamloops, B.C.
IMHO this is clasic bubba at work method....
IMHO this is clasic bubba at work method....
Roman is correct. It can be done though.
I tried it a couple of times and if the barrel is very tight, you will need some incredibly strong rope.
The barrel also needs to be prewrapped with some sort of protective material that won't impede the gripping action of the rope.
In my case, I wrapped the barrel with brass shim stock of around 20 thou with a slight overlap and used a length of 3/8 in sling cable, with eyes at both ends.
The 4 foot snipe gave a lot of leverage, so be sure your receiver is held properly as you won't be able to use it to spin off the barrel.
The first barrel came off easily. The second barrel was a bugger. I ended up marring the finish on a nice receiver, even though it was well wrapped in brass.
That Savage barrel should come off fairly easily, the barrel nut on those should do most of the work.
Do NOT try to wrap the receiver with the rope to turn it off the barrel. You WILL collapse the bolt ways.
I have taken several barrels off of Mausers using a rope. Read about it in the first issue of Gunsmith Kinks, and tried it just for fun. We were amazed at how well it worked using poly rope and a baseball batt in the back room of Hougen's Sportslodge. 
Those were the days!
Ted
Those were the days!
Ted
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I wouldn't knock this unless I tried and failed: Note that I have used a rope several times, to remove oil filters in hard to reach places. Wrapped about four times one hand holding the rope tight, the other pulling the correct "unwinding" end to twist the filter off. Depends on how tight the barrel is fixed to the receiver, will determine if the technique would work on a barrel? I expect the strap wrench would be more effective in this case. (not so in the misery nook where the oil filter is located)
