Chambered My First Barrel Blank this Weekend

[jbcalhoun]

Yep, I've been practicing on an old barrel, turning threads, reaming chambers for about a month now. Started with 22 inches and now at 8 inches! LOL

I decided it was time, so I got one of my barrel blanks in 6mm and started to work.

I now have a fresh barrel for my Benchrest Rifle chambered in 6PPC, ready to break in and shoot some, hopefully, small groups.

I've been watching and taking mental notes for many years, while my Gunsmith performed the operations. Now it was my turn.

Looks like my "Craigslist" lathe will be a keeper. I bought it over a year ago and just now getting time to play with it.

Now waiting on my 9 x 49 vertical milling machine to arrive. My shop is almost complete now.

Brad

 

[scap99]

Dude, that's awesome!




Tapatalk sent it.

 

[jbcalhoun]

Dude, that's awesome!

Yep, I'm certainly happy about the whole deal. Now I don't have to wait on my "Smith" for my new barrel jobs.

It also gives me excuses to get more tooling and more ability as time goes on.

Brad

 

[scap99]

I've got an old Large Ring Mauser 98 that I spun a barrel onto years ago. Would love to have the tooling at my disposal to pull that barrel and spin on a new one, at will.

 

[macshooter]

Awesome. I'd love to have shop do my own work someday.

 

[TXARGUY]

That is awesome! I'm thinking a YouTube video is in order!

 

[Charlie]

Yeah! No pics = didn't happen!