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buckfever1991

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ok so last night while i was drinking heavily i did some research and thought, heck i need make a 6mm-06, ordered dies new turret plate for the press 55g 6mm bullets. now for the fun part... realistically if i get a 30-06 savage and a 243 win in the same savage. could i just swap the barrel and some other few things around and make a 6mm-06 and have a 308 win ? or am i dreaming on how easy this could be?

Buck
 
Heavy drinking and research!

The 243 shoulder is larger in diameter than the 06 case is at the corresponding length. Makes a lousy looking fired formed 6mm 06.
 
You should probably not drink and think up gun ideas at the same time lol, but if you did want to do a 6mm06 you will need a long action standard bolt face gun and the a barrel chambered in said calibre
 
You should have done less drinking and more research.
Could you buy two rifles (both similar model Savage) as donor rifles? Yes.
Could you swap barrels? Yes.
Would that give you a 6mm-06? No.
Would that give you a .308 Win? No.
The .30-06 case is almost 2.5" long while the .243 case is barely over 2" long. See a problem? No? Then...
What it would give you is a long action .243Win that probably would have the extractor groove and sights out of alignment and a short action .30-06 that you could never load a magazine for, nor chamber a round. Again extractor grooves and sights might be misaligned.
At the least, if you weren't drinking heavily during the builds, you would need to ensure extractor groove and sights properly indexed and then ream out the 6mm barrel to allow the .30-06 case to chamber (IF there was enough meat in the barrel root for this).
On the .308Win rifle, you would need to cut some of the barrel off, cut a new shoulder, and re-thread it, cut a new extractor groove in the right place and ensure you took the right amount off for sight indexing. Once you did all of that, you would need to ream out the chamber for .308 Win headspace.
Luckily, you stopped drinking, started thinking, and posted here. I hope you do some more thinking. I mean, if you bought Tikkas, that'd be a whole different story...
 
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