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Hanksv

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  1. With this stupid barrel I had to chuck it up in the lathe anyway. If I would have installed it without setting the shoulder back, it would have seated on the front of the receiver and wouldn't have been close to seating at the inner C ring. I ended up spending most of a day reaming. I probably have to give the reamer one more turn, but I haven't messed with it in a few weeks. Right now the bolt will close on the go gauge, but it is fairly tight.
  2. I spent almost three hours reaming this barrel the other night. Couple turns, clean barrel, clean reamer and repeat. I'm down to where the go gauge is at .138. It didn't take too much reaming to get the gauge to drop to .14, but quite a bit of reaming to get it to start going deeper. Initially it looked like the cutting was happening just below the case shoulders - the gauge might have been hanging up because the taper of the chamber was a little tight. After that, it looked like the reamer was cutting the throat. I'm going to try to build a barrel vise and an action wrench Sunday or Monday. I'm not doing any more reaming until I get the old barrel off and take some measurements. I'm still trying to decide if I should lathe the safety breech on the barrel. If I went too far already, then the answer is yes. If not, I'm reluctant to create more of a reaming project for myself.
  3. Thanks, Clemson. I had seen your bolt handle tutorial a while back but couldn't find it with a quick search. That is exactly what I was looking for. On another note, I think I scored a pretty decent deal on a reamer. About a week and a half ago I added a PTG solid pilot finish reamer to my shopping cart at midway and it showed a price of $79 instead of $95. Since I'm going pretty cheap on this project I ordered it. When my package arrived, the reamer was one of the interchangeable pilot models. So, this brings me to my next question. When I start reaming the chamber, how much downward pressure should I put on the reamer? I'm looking at this thing and thinking that if you don't use enough pressure you probably won't get a clean cut; right?
  4. I'm going to start my yugo .308 project next week. I will be visiting my parents next week and will have access to a complete machine shop (lathes, mills, migs, tigs, all the good stuff). Before I get started I have a couple of questions. First, when drilling and tapping the scope bases, do you drill all the way through the front receiver ring? I have seen some guys suggest that you don't go all the way, while others say that you should punch it through. I'm aware that I don't want to hit the lug seat. Second, does anyone have a couple pictures of one of the Brownells bolt handles during the process of welding it on? I would like to see at what angle you cut the old handle off and the angle of the new handle when attached. Thanks, Hank
  5. So I finally got my hands on a go gauge and dropped it in there. It sticks out about .3 inches. Probably won't take much reaming to finish that off.
  6. hmmm... the barrel still had the original packaging on it and was labelled .308 win. I might have to see if I can track down a number for the adams and bennett people to see what they say.
  7. I have been lurking around here as I gather information for my first mauser build. I'm starting with a Yugo 24/47 and I'm going to make it into a 308 win. I recently bought a short chamberred adams and bennett F34 barrel for this project. Midway has had them backordered forever, so I picked one up on gunbroker for a little bit over the midway price. I don't have headspace gauges or a finish reamer yet as I'm still not sure if I will do that part of the project myself. Anyhow, out of curiousity I dropped a round of surplus 7.62x51 NATO into the chamber to see how short it really is. I expected that the case wouldn't protrude very much since they say that these things are only cut .050 short, however, the case sticks out a good three quarters of an inch or more (I didn't bother to measure). This doesn't seem right, but then again, I haven't done this before. Are the dimensions of the NATO and the commercial ammo that much different? I always thought you could 7.62x51 in a 308 Win., but not the other way around. What do you guys think? Thanks, Hank
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