Why re-barrel?

petew said:
It seems to be quite popular to re barrel a rifle these days, but for the life of me I don't see why people are doing this when you can buy a new or very good used rifle in the desired caliber for the cost of re barreling. In the end you have 2 rifles. Perhaps a competition shooter wanting a custom barrel can justify the process, but for the average hunting / plinking shooter it doesn't make sense.
I don't get it . I considered a re chamber for a while on a 6.5 x 55 , but again the cost to do it didn't make sense so I dropped the idea.
I am curious as to why re barreling is so popular today with the Joe average shooters.
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To regain the accuracy lost in a worn out barrel. I usually just get new take off barrels that guys sell off who want to customize their 700's with.
They are cheap and plenty accurate for hunting and only require minimal reaming/headspacing to install.
 
Ardent said:
Seems Pete hasn't revisited the thread soon as it didn't conform to his rationalisations of why rebarreling is a needless expense and he knows better. I do the same in threads that walk away from what I figure is the true path too, just a funny bit of forum life.
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Kinda like all of the "How much is my Rifle Worth?" threads... when people value it at half of what the OP was hoping for, the OP will usually run away and hope the thread dies... and in a few days, we see the rifle listed in the EE at double what the "consensus value" was determined to be in the original thread... people are funny, transparent, but funny.
 
Ardent said:
Seems Pete hasn't revisited the thread soon as it didn't conform to his rationalisations of why rebarreling is a needless expense and he knows better. I do the same in threads that walk away from what I figure is the true path too, just a funny bit of forum life.
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Actually I visit every time a post is made and I get the email telling me.
It has been interesting reading, however my intent was not to get into an argument and start a war of words.
 
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