Barrel removed with nut still stuck

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?

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

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

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

I will try that tonight. thanks

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 ;).

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.