I have a mod 10 heavy barrel that has the typical savage short throat. This barrel shoots pretty good for a factory barrel and likes the 68 grain hornady hpbt. My question is would it be worth sending it to a smith to get the throat lengthened. The reason I ask is i can hear powder start to crunch at about 22 grains of varget. I have loaded up to 24 with no pressure signs but my oal is not very consistent and sd is not very good. I think it would shoot very well if i could load up around 24 or 25 grains and not be supper compressed. Not sure it would be worth the money for a factory barrel but dont really want to buy a new barrel at this time. If i did this i would probably have the oal cut to 18 or 20 inches at the same time.
Is there any smiths that would do this to a factory barrel? or should I just deal with it and get a 7 or 8 twist barrel when the time comes?

Thanks for any help

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