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Chambering a rifle at home
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<blockquote data-quote="birdiemc" data-source="post: 1776922" data-attributes="member: 29632"><p>I finally got that chamber cut that I mentioned. It's for a savage action and I toyed with the idea of ditching the barrel nut, but was scared since it's my first time to ever do this and the barrel nut provides a little margin for error on threading depth. But I have to say, next one I do is definitely going to be shouldered instead. </p><p></p><p>Can I throw out a few numbers just to verify I got everything right? I had Hinnant's book on the table, Gritters book, my phone with articles pulled up, drawings I had done, as much resources as I could get. </p><p>For my final reaming/fitting, I threaded on the barrel nut, lug and action, bottomed out onto the bolt head, then tightened down the nut against the action. Then held the nut in place while unthreading the action enough to get the go gauge in. Tightened the action down against the go gauge, checking the feel of the bolt, then once I had it where I liked it, checked the gap between the barrel nut and the lug with a feeler gauge. Got .042, so cut the chamber another .037 deep to maintain a .005 gap between the ends of the bolt and barrel. Sound correct? It sure makes sense in my head.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="birdiemc, post: 1776922, member: 29632"] I finally got that chamber cut that I mentioned. It's for a savage action and I toyed with the idea of ditching the barrel nut, but was scared since it's my first time to ever do this and the barrel nut provides a little margin for error on threading depth. But I have to say, next one I do is definitely going to be shouldered instead. Can I throw out a few numbers just to verify I got everything right? I had Hinnant's book on the table, Gritters book, my phone with articles pulled up, drawings I had done, as much resources as I could get. For my final reaming/fitting, I threaded on the barrel nut, lug and action, bottomed out onto the bolt head, then tightened down the nut against the action. Then held the nut in place while unthreading the action enough to get the go gauge in. Tightened the action down against the go gauge, checking the feel of the bolt, then once I had it where I liked it, checked the gap between the barrel nut and the lug with a feeler gauge. Got .042, so cut the chamber another .037 deep to maintain a .005 gap between the ends of the bolt and barrel. Sound correct? It sure makes sense in my head. [/QUOTE]
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