Installing surplus 98 barrels
- Thread starter snowhunter
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Most pre-chambered barrels are only short chambered. They are threaded to fit your reciever but when threaded in you can't actually chamber a round. They are usually done with a rougher and need to be finished with a finish reamer. I just did a 7mm and needed to remove only 0.030 .
If you're talking a milsurp barrel (take off) I've had extremely good luck with them. I haven't tried Numrichs' offerings and it may be very difficult to get them into Canada because of US laws. I did have trouble with one I picked up at a gun show that went about 25 degrees past the point that would have indexed the sights properly. Funny thing was it headspaced correctly.
As far as a "new" pre threaded/chambered barrel goes that's a whole different ball game and billdick is right.
As far as a "new" pre threaded/chambered barrel goes that's a whole different ball game and billdick is right.
It is a crapshoot whether a barrel is going to turn in, index, and have the headspace within limits. Odds can be long.
With Mausers, you are talking about rifles made in many different factories, for decades.
As mentionned, there is the issue of getting the barrel out of the US. Don't know if Numrich will do the export paperwork, or at what cost.
With Mausers, you are talking about rifles made in many different factories, for decades.
As mentionned, there is the issue of getting the barrel out of the US. Don't know if Numrich will do the export paperwork, or at what cost.
mauser barrels
T.E.C. a dealer on this site has some brand new old stock Wilson barrels un-blued, short chambered 270 for $100.00 and i was looking at The Saskatoon Gunsmith Shoppe site and they have some take off used barrels for mausers for cheap,hope this helps you out.I'm also a mauser nut.
Dean.C
T.E.C. a dealer on this site has some brand new old stock Wilson barrels un-blued, short chambered 270 for $100.00 and i was looking at The Saskatoon Gunsmith Shoppe site and they have some take off used barrels for mausers for cheap,hope this helps you out.I'm also a mauser nut.
Dean.C
You can install mauser barrels without gages, just use plasti gage and the ammo you are going to use. You guys have complicated the crap out-of this and scared the hell-out of the guy. Military mausers had super sloppy headspace for trench conditions, and the mauser 98 is the easiest thing to put-on because it is just flat with no wiers extractor geometry or anything. Usually the camers are deep,enough, and you just have to take from the front shoulder of barrel to take-up and you need 1/8 to 1/6 of a turn for torque. Divide 1x12 to get the change in headspace per rotation and figure-out what you have to do by checking with the depth end of a vernier caliper and comparing to distances from the shoulder plus head of factory round of ammo subtracted from closed bolt face depth to front of reciever ring. sheesh.If you are a couple thou. too tight, Lap/polish bolt face and or lugs-in and say you meant to do-it. You can always chuck a cruddy boltface and indicate-it square to clean-up gas-cutting or tool marks with a carbide cutter.
Gages are expensive, and only really necessary if you were going to do a bunch. For a one-off for yourself, there is no need. Why buy a cheap barrel and spend more money for the gages than the barrel?
