Thread: threading into the flutes in a barrel

I have a tikka with a aftermarket fluted 22.5 inch barrel looking to shorten and suppress it to 18-19 iches which would mean cutting into fluted section of barrel the guy who barreled it for me said it would be fine but would just look abit silly so at the time I stick with the shortest I could without cutting flutes but its just going to be to long with a can fitted and I figure once there's an over barrel can fitted you wont see it anyway can it be done? and will it affect anything other than looks?
cheers

Will be fine

For a hunting rifle no worries.just making sure there is enough meet at the bottom of the flut to cut a clean thread into ,that s all.

mate had one done on hes new tikka and the bit of barrel they cut of was used to make the thread cover out off so it didnt look unfished if you get what i mean

Only looks weird when you haven't got the suppressor on, otherwise it's all good.

Originally Posted by bigbear

mate had one done on hes new tikka and the bit of barrel they cut of was used to make the thread cover out off so it didnt look unfished if you get what i mean

that's a good idea

Originally Posted by Mathias

Only looks weird when you haven't got the suppressor on, otherwise it's all good.

its only ever not going to have the can on when its in the safe so don't really care about that