Why is not anyone offering a barrel recycling service? Someone say...like McGowen...heres the deal...

You have a SAVAGE, REMINGTON or other make barrel that has seen its useful life...say a 22-250 or a 243AI with a high round count and maybe some throat erosion...

You send it to a barrel maker and they then use your barrel to drill a caliber larger, say from 22-250 to .243AI or from 243AI to 308, cutting the chamber end by an inch, rechambering and cutting/rifling a new bore a step larger than the old bore and then returning it to you as basically a new barrel...at half the cost of a new barrel...you get your old barrel in the contour you wanted/liked/desired with a new caliber...basically a brand new old barrel...

Of even offer TRADE IN with your old barrel for a new one, the barrel maker could then sell these as ALMOST NEW...

Seems like a niche market wide open to someone...

DISCUSS...