First Custom bolt gun

[tobnpr]

Building your own barrel vice could present a challenge. The clamping force required to keep a grip on factory barrel while breaking the action free, is significant.

Not a problem if you have the ability to machine it; your take is spot-on.
I pull a lot of milsurp barrels for replacement- 2" aluminum stock, 3/4" Grade 8 all-thread/nuts. Crank on it with as long a cheater as I need.
It's all about surface area contact. If the barrel has a straight cylinder ahead of the receiver easy-peasy. Little or no straight cylinder, with a lot of taper (like Tikkas), are where custom bushings, tapered to match the barrel contour are desirable.

Mine:

For a commercial vise, I'd go with the Brownell's. Every bit as stout as their action wrench which is indestructible.

 

[ntsqd]

Maybe I misunderstand the term, but to me a "pre-fit" barrel means a shouldered barrel that is precision machined with a finished chamber intended to Head-Space correctly the first time it is screwed into place. It is Pre-Fit to the action in question by any one of several methods and will head-space correctly if torqued to the gunsmith's spec. Not that any responsible person wouldn't check it anyway, but in theory and in practice the head-space shouldn't need to be checked.
It does not mean a barrel-nut barrel with a finished chamber.

I don't think that it's possible to overkill a home made action/barrel vise. I'd want at least 5/8" studs and would prefer 3/4" Most commercial vises appear to use UNC threads, but I'd use UNF threads.

I check my barrel nut builds with GO and NO-GO gauges first, then check function with a loaded round or one of my bullet seating depth dummys if I have one. The comment about using a stripped bolt kinda got buried, but it is important. No firing pin assembly or spring-loaded ejector should be in place while checking this.

 

[Idaho Lefty]

@ ntsqd,.
The answer to your Question, is on Post #3,.. Line 1,.. RemAge

 

[BrentM]

I've done a pile of these if you want to pm me. Most of the responses are same as mine. I'm running custom actions with savage threads now but I've done Remington, savage, and weatherby

 

[ntsqd]

Yeah, Rem- Age. As in a Remington set up for a barrel nut ala a Savage. That's not a Pre-Fit as I understand the term.

 

[chav0_12]

Yeah, Rem- Age. As in a Remington set up for a barrel nut ala a Savage. That's not a Pre-Fit as I understand the term.

Most manufacturers call those pre-fits. Everything else is usually specified as a shouldered pre-fit and usually requires a very precise action.

 

[Rugerman77]

Again thanks for all input and helpfulness. I'll give it a go when I get my barrel in