Money is of no issue. I have a personal friend that is a master machinist/gunsmith.

I've definitely not made up my mind. I'll either have him cut/rethread the receiver or I won't. I'll definitely not be cutting the barrel though.

I'll talk it over with my machinist and see what he feels. 0.031" of material being removed during rethreading. Besides, it is already heat treated. Machining will be harder on the tools, but I won't be annealing the steel in the process. It will still be heat treated. As far as I know receivers aren't surface hardened. They are treated all the way through.

I may post this up over in the gunsmith forum on the Hide and see what some of the gunsmiths think there.

If it turns out to be a no go on the receiver then I'll just scrap the whole idea and locate a different receiver.