Bothered by my CZ 858

The barrel is a press fit. I have pressed out two of them from "parts kit" guns. Keep in mind they were easy to gain access to press considering the recievers were sawed in two.:p Pressing them out of a complete reciever would be a bit of a jigging nightmare, but not impossible.

Also, one of the barrels came free at about 1500 lbs....the other one took almost 6 tons to break it free, so not alot of uniformity in construction.

Long and short of it, not an easy gun to rebarrel, at least for the home gunsmith. I would probably keep it for parts and buy a replacement gun if repair is fiscally unsound.
 
cheapest to ream the barrel .

but if were you , i would move the front sight back 3 inches and make the ream part look like a break .
 
Thats actually not a bad idea.

A machinist could make it look quite nice and barrel length would be unaffected.

If you removed the barrel and disassembled it, it would be just a couple hours of work figuring it all out and cutting.
 
The truth is that there is no economical solution if you don't have an R-PAL. If you do then get one of the barrels that I listed above. If you don't have an R-PAL and the rifle's accuracy has suffered as a result of the damage then I would be taking John Marshall up on his offer cause in the end it might be cheeper to just get a new or nicely used gun.
 
No, when you conter-bore the barrel, it maintain it's full original lenght... so it would still be non-restricted.

Also, please do call the CFC tech. He will gladly explain to you that you cannot make a non-restricted rifle into a restricted rifle by cutting of the barrel...

I know the chance of you or anybody ever getting arrested are slim to none... but the law remains... it's up to you to play by the rules or not.
 
Thanks guys,

I am going to take it to the range and see how much the accuracy has been affected.

If it has I will definitely check into the legalities of boring the barrel to the ring.

The gun has sat in my safe for a long time as the mishap scared and disapointed me so badly. Thanks for giving me a little hope.
 
One of the board suppliers will sell you a barreled reciever for around $300, I think it was Marstar IIRC. Swap over your parts and consider it a cheaper lesson than losing an eye.
 
yea its your call here, you can counter-bore/ream the end down to remove the problem, maintaining the existing length... or replace the barrel/receiver entirely... or get rid of the gun by the usual means for nothing. my personal choice would be to correct it in the bore and make due with whatever minimal loss of power involved, its gonna be very tiny.
 
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