Ruger American Ranch barrel replacement?

Kmeister

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My Ruger American Ranch 7.62x39 barrel is done/kaput. Anyone know where I can get a decent replacement? I did a little internet search and not much came up but I’m probably not looking in the right places.
 
maple_leaf_eh said:
Did you shoot out all the bullseyes, or just want something different?
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Lent it to a friend to go through some of his copious ammo reserves. Bone head did a bad job cleaning and he used corrosive. I didn’t clean it when he returned it. Sadly I don’t think I need to say more.
 
How bad is it? You may be surprised how much an abrasive cleaner like thorroclean or Iosso can do.
Or.. shoot it and if it still perform OK, ignore it and use it for more corrosive blasting goodness.

I'f it's really bad, might be a good opportunity for a 6 arc, 22 arc, or 6.5 grendel....
 
It's definitely worth trying a deep clean and see how it shoots, you never know... it might shoot great! And as Prairieshots points out it could be a good, dedicated, salty surplus blaster if your nicely stocked up.
 
Can-down said:
It's definitely worth trying a deep clean and see how it shoots, you never know... it might shoot great! And as Prairieshots points out it could be a good, dedicated, salty surplus blaster if your nicely stocked up.
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I’ll give it a clean but it looks pretty bad. Who knows.
 
prairieshots said:
How bad is it? You may be surprised how much an abrasive cleaner like thorroclean or Iosso can do.
Or.. shoot it and if it still perform OK, ignore it and use it for more corrosive blasting goodness.

I'f it's really bad, might be a good opportunity for a 6 arc, 22 arc, or 6.5 grendel....
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I never really thought of a different calibre. 6ARC would be interesting as I’m running an MDT chassis with 6ARC mags. 7.62x39 performs great in that magazine when the barrel is smooth and shinny.
 
Kmeister said:
I never really thought of a different calibre. 6ARC would be interesting as I’m running an MDT chassis with 6ARC mags. 7.62x39 performs great in that magazine when the barrel is smooth and shinny.
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Oh awesome. I bought a 6 arc magazines to try 7.62x39 in for the same application, but when loading the mag it seemed like the rounds wanted to nosedive. Yours works well? Did you modify anything?


I did a lot of looking and couldn't find much for people running 7.62x39 in the 6 arc aics mag
 
prairieshots said:
Oh awesome. I bought a 6 arc magazines to try 7.62x39 in for the same application, but when loading the mag it seemed like the rounds wanted to nosedive. Yours works well? Did you modify anything?


I did a lot of looking and couldn't find much for people running 7.62x39 in the 6 arc aics mag
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Ran fine. I’m not going to say perfect. I actually bought the chassis and mags off EE from a person that had tested it with success. So he did the dirty work for me. Now I need to find some evapo-rust and see what happens. It can’t make it worse ….
 
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