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Re-barreling 270 WSM
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<blockquote data-quote="406pat" data-source="post: 311630" data-attributes="member: 13575"><p>Before dumping a bunch of money into it, I'd check the bedding and barrel float. A co-worker of mine came to me with a Model 70 in .300 rem mag that couldn't hit the broad side of a barn. I was his last step before just selling it for fifty bucks. I pulled the action and found it was bedded in something that looked like shoe goo. I scraped that crap out, put in some aluminum pillars, bedded it with some loctite epoxy and sanded out the barrel channel a little bit and now it shoots clover leafs at 100 yds. Took me about 2 hours of work and $10 in materials to make a shooter out of a tomato stake.</p><p></p><p>As for the barrel question, the answer could go either way, that is to say that could be what the gunsmith chambers for or what caliber the barrel is. Normally when a barrel maker calls out <em>caliber</em>, that is the bore diameter throughout the barrel and <em>chambering</em> or <em>chamber</em> is the cartridge that they have the ability to ream the barrel out to fit. Generally getting a .270 caliber barrel will mean that your gunsmith will have to ream whatever chamber you desire whereas getting a barrel chambered for a .270 WSM means that your gunsmith simply needs to spin the barrel on and headspace.</p><p></p><p>Hope that helps</p><p></p><p>-PJS</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="406pat, post: 311630, member: 13575"] Before dumping a bunch of money into it, I'd check the bedding and barrel float. A co-worker of mine came to me with a Model 70 in .300 rem mag that couldn't hit the broad side of a barn. I was his last step before just selling it for fifty bucks. I pulled the action and found it was bedded in something that looked like shoe goo. I scraped that crap out, put in some aluminum pillars, bedded it with some loctite epoxy and sanded out the barrel channel a little bit and now it shoots clover leafs at 100 yds. Took me about 2 hours of work and $10 in materials to make a shooter out of a tomato stake. As for the barrel question, the answer could go either way, that is to say that could be what the gunsmith chambers for or what caliber the barrel is. Normally when a barrel maker calls out [I]caliber[/I], that is the bore diameter throughout the barrel and [I]chambering[/I] or [I]chamber[/I] is the cartridge that they have the ability to ream the barrel out to fit. Generally getting a .270 caliber barrel will mean that your gunsmith will have to ream whatever chamber you desire whereas getting a barrel chambered for a .270 WSM means that your gunsmith simply needs to spin the barrel on and headspace. Hope that helps -PJS [/QUOTE]
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