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<blockquote data-quote="MudRunner2005" data-source="post: 1635369" data-attributes="member: 12995"><p>I was disagreeing with the "they're not worth fooling with" part.</p><p></p><p>My smith is not a smith by trade, so he's not big on taking in outside (non-local) work. He's a very peculiar guy. Wish I could afford the tools to do it myself, I've always wanted to get into gunsmithing. I'm sure somewhere someone could rig up a barrel nut setup for an A-Bolt/A-Bolt II rifle. The only issue is, they're not a high-demand due to lots of false information on the web, and scared gunsmiths who won't touch them because of hear-say. Once you get the factory barrel off, it's no different than any other rifle build. And once you get the factory barrel off, rebarreling from there is all gravy.</p><p></p><p>The trick is, you have to slowly heat-up the front of the receiver to melt the red loctite-type material that is on the factory barrel threads, BEFORE you can attempt to unscrew the factory barrel. Once you get it hot enough, then you can twist off the factory barrel, clean all the threads out and remove all that red sticky stuff. From there, the job will be straight-forward like any other rifle build.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MudRunner2005, post: 1635369, member: 12995"] I was disagreeing with the "they're not worth fooling with" part. My smith is not a smith by trade, so he's not big on taking in outside (non-local) work. He's a very peculiar guy. Wish I could afford the tools to do it myself, I've always wanted to get into gunsmithing. I'm sure somewhere someone could rig up a barrel nut setup for an A-Bolt/A-Bolt II rifle. The only issue is, they're not a high-demand due to lots of false information on the web, and scared gunsmiths who won't touch them because of hear-say. Once you get the factory barrel off, it's no different than any other rifle build. And once you get the factory barrel off, rebarreling from there is all gravy. The trick is, you have to slowly heat-up the front of the receiver to melt the red loctite-type material that is on the factory barrel threads, BEFORE you can attempt to unscrew the factory barrel. Once you get it hot enough, then you can twist off the factory barrel, clean all the threads out and remove all that red sticky stuff. From there, the job will be straight-forward like any other rifle build. [/QUOTE]
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