Thread: Educate me on bushpigs

Originally Posted by Ryan_Songhurst

Have had plenty of rifles with thread In the fluted section.

Yes you can do it but it does not make it ideal. Its good practice to keep the thread as larger dia as possible as not to reduce the wall thickness too much. If you make the thread as small as the the flutes are deep then the wall thickness remaining will be quite thin. If you thread it so that the flutes are still present then gas will escape backwards through the flutes.
I would strongly suggest that the OP does not butcher a new gun in such a way. If it was an old beater then sure - but as soon as he does that it will loose much of its value and desirability. I would never consider such a gun.

Originally Posted by ChrisW

Yes you can do it but it does not make it ideal. Its good practice to keep the thread as larger dia as possible as not to reduce the wall thickness too much. If you make the thread as small as the the flutes are deep then the wall thickness remaining will be quite thin. If you thread it so that the flutes are still present then gas will escape backwards through the flutes.
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When a fluted tikka barrel in 308 get the bush pig chop, it quite often ends up being threaded at 14x1 , i.e. the same thread as the factory tikkas comes into...