Barrel removed with nut still stuck

[teebirdhyzer]

I'm in the process of trying to change out my first barrel. The acton wrench and nut wrench came in, and i sprayed some PB blaster on the nut and began hitting the wrench with a dead blow hammer. After some serious pressure, I began getting movement. Except, the nut wasn't loosening...instead the entire barrel was unscrewing from the action. I tightened it up several times and tried again to get the nut to bread loose with no luck, so I just removed the entire barrel, with nut attached, and orderd a new nut from MIdway. Anyone else ever had this problem?

[Uncle Jack]

It is not uncommon with a rusted or frozen barrel nut.

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[geargrinder]

The bluing salts leach back into the threads locking them up pretty tight.

[jinx-)]

Try to move nut back in the clockwise direction, don't try to move in counterclockwise, it won't go...

[teebirdhyzer]

I will try that tonight. thanks

[scnewt]

Wished that I had seen this post last week... I could have traded you for a barrel with the nut welded to the recoil lug and then welded to the action. Just pull out the Dremel and get to work ;).

[Carvera]

Here's my guess,

Front mount screw was initially too long. It sunk into the barrel threads and messed with them pretty good. Now you're trying to get nut off of a barrel with bad threads, and are getting nowhere.

Just a guess.