rebore a barrel - Ross 1905R

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I've seen a few threads on having barrels rebored but never really a price

I also know that rebarreling is the prefered option unless there are other issues involved, and that there are very few gunsmiths that will take on a rebore project and no one wants to rebore and sleve a rifle barrel.

So I'm asking because I have a Ross 1905R factory sporter that the throat is burnt out, I would like to think that it would make a good 338-303 but I need to know what sort of cost (ball park estimate) that I would be looking at to get this done.

or if anyone is cutting barrel shanks to 3TPI left hand buttress threads I would be very interested in a rebarrel.
 
I, too, have a 1905R which could use a new bore. Either the existing barrel, or a take-off Mk.II barrel with a poor bore I have on hand. I was thinking .35-303, paralleling the .35 Winchester for which some Ross sporters were chambered.
Ron Smith's name has been mentioned. It is reported that the waiting period is a year.
I have heard of the original breech being used to make a sleeve, into which a new barrel is threaded. This avoids having to duplicate the interesting thread used on the 1905 Rosses.
 
Bonus of a re-bore is that your sights maintain alignment. No need to dicker around with indexing. Ron will make that old Ross barrel fantastic, but he has a very long work queue and he is 76 or 77 now.
 
OMG. That Ross 1905 LH thread would put a machinist into hysterics....never seen machining like it.

tiriaq said:
I, too, have a 1905R which could use a new bore. Either the existing barrel, or a take-off Mk.II barrel with a poor bore I have on hand. I was thinking .35-303, paralleling the .35 Winchester for which some Ross sporters were chambered.
Ron Smith's name has been mentioned. It is reported that the waiting period is a year.
I have heard of the original breech being used to make a sleeve, into which a new barrel is threaded. This avoids having to duplicate the interesting thread used on the 1905 Rosses.
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