What Odd Calibers Did You Rebarrel With

[jonbearman]

I rebarreled one in 22-250AI which is a lazer,number2 was a .260 rem,shoots very good,number 3 is a cylinder barrel in .308, number4 is 7.62x39 which is very accurate and number 5 is a .223 1in8 criterion.I prefer the mcgowens over everything else as I have had greater accuracy with their prefits.

[Eric in NC]

Rimmed cases are a bit tricky to feed but not as bad as u would think.that is, once i started using the lee enfield follower,or one made near its specs.

Take a pic of your 7.62x54R boltface and extractor please!

Or the 45-70 - really want to see how this can work in a Savage action (don't care about feeding - looking at firing and extraction)

[Tonysnoo]

Not sure if it's odd, but we did a 6mm SLR a few weeks back. Works very nice

[hunter2]

375-06 imp from PacNor with a 8 twist for subsonic. 350 gr. Clearwater is great for deer. But it loves 220 gr Hornady run fast. 300 blk that was a pain in the foot until I contacted Fred and got his ejector. Anybody in for an Edge 338, 30" bull group buy???

[scope eye]

I have a 30" 338 edge with a muzzle break on the way and it is costing me a kings ransom, I hope it's worth it, I now know why they call it a poor mans Lapua, it has done exactly that turn me into a poor man, and the barrel is the least of my problems,
1 brass OUCH
2 dies OUCH OUCH
3 powder 100+ grains a whack OUCH OUCH OUCH
4 bullets 50 per box that cost more than 100 count other calibers OUCH OUCH OUCH OUCH
I could go on

Tanks Dean

[Gmac5]

Eric
I dont know how to post pictures or even have a digital cam,but im getting some help from a shooting buddy (i hope soon ) to post pictures of the axis stocks i make and the 45acp conversion ..
Back to the barrel and bolt face,i have tried many ways considering the rim is larger than the bolt
1 Easiest was to cut the brass to a rebated rim work intensive but most rewardin
2 method includes many wasted bolts and only so so results .it includes turning bolt face milling llug of bolt milling rear of barrel for the remaining r lug housing the extractor.
Clearly many ruined bolts trying to use existing nonmodified cases
I do enjoy challenges and as u can see have much time to try those I WONDER IF THAT WILL WORK

[Corprin]

I have a 30" 338 edge with a muzzle break on the way and it is costing me a kings ransom, I hope it's worth it, I now know why they call it a poor mans Lapua, it has done exactly that turn me into a poor man, and the barrel is the least of my problems,
1 brass OUCH
2 dies OUCH OUCH
3 powder 100+ grains a whack OUCH OUCH OUCH
4 bullets 50 per box that cost more than 100 count other calibers OUCH OUCH OUCH OUCH
I could go on

Tanks Dean

Dean,

Want to sell that full kit

[scope eye]

Dean,

Want to sell that full kit Wink

Thanks but it will be here in a couple of weeks,
and the waiting has been even more painful
than the expenditures.

[MNbogboy]

One of my 110s (pre-1959) usually sports a Douglas varmint 25-06...But this one shed the stainless barrel the other day and put on its small headed bolt and a Shaw .221 fireball barrel....Now a LA with a itsy-bitsy .221 might be considered a little odd...But boy does it like to shoot small groups ;D
Randy

[Gene R]

Building a 270 wby now. Not odd but not common as a 270win it isn't.

Gene

[BobT]

I guess my most unusual was/is my .270/08 AI. I never could get it to shoot like it should have and it turned out that the concentricity of the barrel was out to lunch. Now it is a fire form only barrel.

Bob

[Idahojoe]

6.5x257 Roberts Ackley Improved. love it

[wch]

Lessee...
6.5 Grendel
6mmNorma BR
6.5x47 Lapua
30 BR

[Blue Avenger]

I guess my .416 Taylor Striker and .270 STW Rifle would be the oddest I have.

[bootsmcguire]

30 BR
458 WM
243 AI
223 WSSM (kind weird for a Savage ::))
22 K-Hornet

and hopefully coming in the not too distant future

6mm International

[slaroy]

6.5x257 Roberts Ackley Improved. love it

All the calibers mentioned are pretty interesting, but until I read this I didn't come up with any hair-brained schemes. My hunting buddies thought I was goofy for building an "oddball" like a 257 Roberts. Wait till they hear the next barrel I have on order.

[SFLEFTY]

Uncle Jack; Have you worked with your 22-6mm Rem enough to tell us what it likes and what you think of it? See, I have this barrel blank.............. :)