I have a barrelled action that is no-good. The barrel is completely rotted out. The action has also been stripped of all major parts. Bolt is missing etc. I was hoping to unscrew the barrel and keep the receiver as a shelf ornament. Does anyone know how this is done? Or should i just take it to a gun smith? I dont care if either part works again as long as i can clean it, re blue it and make an ornament.
How to i get the barrel off a Ross M-10?
- Thread starter rci2950
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Normally you need a barrel vice, and an action wrench. Both with the correct inserts for the Ross. You clamp the barrel vice in a big vice, and using the action wrench, and usually a long snipe, twist it off.
But for what you are doing, i suppose you could just cut the barrel off with a hacksaw.
But for what you are doing, i suppose you could just cut the barrel off with a hacksaw.
I also forgot to mention the barrel was sporterised. It is literal garbage. I dont even think it would be good for that guy looking for barrels to practice reaming because its in such bad shape inside. Right hand thread. Thats what i was looking for. I will give this a shot.
Mk. III barrels can be tight.
If the barrel is scrap, cut a relief groove around the barrel about 1 mm in front of the receiver ring. Go perhaps 3 mm deep. This will relax the contact between the shoulder and the receiver and make unscrewing easier.
If the barrel is scrap, cut a relief groove around the barrel about 1 mm in front of the receiver ring. Go perhaps 3 mm deep. This will relax the contact between the shoulder and the receiver and make unscrewing easier.
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sounds a little like the tool I made to take valves out of propane tanks.
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Why take the barrel off at all? If it is going to end up as a paperweight, cut the barrel off about 3 inches from the front of the receiver, You could even section the barrel/ front of the receiver to show the chamber, threads, and bore. Make up an "L" shaped wood stand out of a nice wood, and drill a hole in the vertical leg to accept the barrel, while the rear end of the receiver, magazine, trigger guard or wherever it hits rests on the base. Sand and treat the wood base with a Tru Oil finish, and even have a small brass plate engraved with something like "1910 Ross" on it.
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Why take the barrel off at all? If it is going to end up as a paperweight, cut the barrel off about 3 inches from the front of the receiver, You could even section the barrel/ front of the receiver to show the chamber, threads, and bore. Make up an "L" shaped wood stand out of a nice wood, and drill a hole in the vertical leg to accept the barrel, while the rear end of the receiver, magazine, trigger guard or wherever it hits rests on the base. Sand and treat the wood base with a Tru Oil finish, and even have a small brass plate engraved with something like "1910 Ross" on it.
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Well yes it is, and cutting the barrel will now create a prohibited firearm....go figure. There are bolts for those rifles hanging around, is the trigger group intact? Perhaps someone would like to rebuild an old Ross?
Scott
Technically, the receiver is the registered part of the firearm. If the OP does what he proposes, and displays the receiver as a shelf ornament, would he not be subject to the UNSAFE STORAGE part of the law?
If the OP is concerned about the receiver being used again as a firearm, or if he wants to really make sure it could not, he could simply deactivate the action. This could be done by getting a slightly larger bolt or rod that will not quite fit into the back end of the receiver, grind a small portion of that bolt down so that it fits inside the back of the receiver where the rifle bolt is inserted, cut off about a 1/2 inch section of the ground down piece and put it inside the receiver where it would not be noticed, and WELD that small section in place inside the back end of the receiver. That would effectively "dewat" or deactivate the receiver.
For the NIT PICKERS, the OP could send the remaining portion of the ground down bolt or rod used to make the insert for the welded receiver to one of them along with a suggestion of where to put it.
maple_leaf_eh
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Read up on the Deactivation guidelines before attempting to make a display.
My nonlawyer reading goes this way - if enough of the bolt face is removed, a slot cut into the chamber, and a pin welded into the chamber, then it is not capable of chambering a round. What was a firearm is no longer. However, the deactivation has to be approved by the Firearms Lab and done by an approved gunsmith. (Not my rules, theirs.) Any more steel removed during the deactivation is just making chips.
Section 2 of the Criminal Code:
“Firearm” means a barrelled weapon from which any shot, bullet or other projectile can be discharged and that is capable of causing serious bodily injury or death to a person, and includes any frame or receiver of such a barrelled weapon and anything that can be adapted for use as a firearm;
My nonlawyer reading goes this way - if enough of the bolt face is removed, a slot cut into the chamber, and a pin welded into the chamber, then it is not capable of chambering a round. What was a firearm is no longer. However, the deactivation has to be approved by the Firearms Lab and done by an approved gunsmith. (Not my rules, theirs.) Any more steel removed during the deactivation is just making chips.
Section 2 of the Criminal Code:
“Firearm” means a barrelled weapon from which any shot, bullet or other projectile can be discharged and that is capable of causing serious bodily injury or death to a person, and includes any frame or receiver of such a barrelled weapon and anything that can be adapted for use as a firearm;
