Very early 110L gets new barrel?

[PhilC]

Sorry to hear of your health issues Mike but happy to see you back!

Yours is indeed an early 110, like mine, also a 4-digit SN. The pre-66 models still use a barrel nut and headspace the same as later models but the unique bolt design required the chamber be machined to match.

EABCO used to sell barrels for pre-66 110s, I don't know if they still do.

Best wishes going forward.

[mikebritton]

Thanks for the come backs.
No, I don't want to sell the rifle, if that was the case we wouldn't be having this conversation.
I could much easier sell this rifle at a gun show and go looking. But then you research left handed, 6mm rifles and you get into some serious money.
I have this rifle, I really like this rifle. The stock makes most Savage stocks look like fence posts.
So...my incentive is to rebarrel this rifle.
Thanks, Phil! Now I'm beginning to understand the difference between pre 66 and post 66. That tells me that the majority of independent gunsmiths simply just don't want to go to the trouble.
Beginning to look like I'll be going to ER Shaw. Doing this rifle will put me in the cost level of a new lefty 110, but with a vintage high blue action in a sweet wood stock instead of plastic.

[big honkin jeep]

Maybe some help maybe not but some lightweight bullets like the 125 SSTs and Hodgdons 60% of max reduced load formula for H4895 would give you a dramatic reduction in powder consumption, recoil and muzzle blast and let you keep and shoot it as a 30-06 very comfortably.
Starting to think I missed my calling as an H4895 salesman but h4895 is an amazing powder with the widest range of safe charge weights and potential velocitys I'm aware of.
Just thought Id throw it out there cause there is .ore than one way to skin a cat and H4895 has completely changed my way of thinking about some of the more potent cartridges. Looks like a 30-06 with a 125 can safely be reduced to about a 32.2 gr charge. Oughta be plenty for killin paper


Good luck

[mikebritton]

Jeep,
I shot a pickup full of 4895 in my Palma rifle when I was shooting in competition. It is excellent powder.