So I had a thought and wanted to try it. So until my new s.s. barrel is done for this build (have it posted in the members build section also but not this part) I took the old 223 Rem. barrel that was on my sons 112V J series that I rebuilt with a new barrel and I had this one laying around. I took the old 223 barrel and rebored, reamed, prelapped, rifled and finished lapped the barrel to 6.5mm to see how it would turn out and how it would shoot. Reboring and rifling the barrel turned out like a million bucks. I set it up and rechambered the barrel to 6.5CM (Bartlein Match reamer...I modified the throat dimensions of the chamber). I then took the original 26" finish length of the barrel and cut 3" off and recrowned the muzzle and did it with an 11 degree target crown. I put the barrel back on today. The barrel was rifled with 5R rifling and is a 1-8 twist.
Before anyone freaks out on me by reboring the old barrel. It was heavily shot and the bore was pitted as well. So the bore was basically junk. When I first took the bore to .228" diameter (.004" bigger than the original groove size) there where still pits thru out the bore. So some of the pitting went at least .010" deep. It wasn't until I hit 6mm bore size that it cleaned up all the way.
Next thing I have to do is to inlet the magazine well a little deeper. The stock is a NOS 110S silhouette left hand stock and has never been used. The magazine box is bottoming out in the front of the mag well area.
I'll get some ammo loaded up as well as running some box ammo thru it and I should shoot it some this coming weekend. I'm going to shoot the rifle with out bedding the stock right now. I'll know either way if it's going to shoot. I'll keep ya posted.
Later, Frank
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