Thread: Ideas

Originally Posted by Basenjiboy

A fast twist 25 Souper a.k.a 25-08 (i.e a metric 257 Roberts)

Or a 25 creed

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22-250 fast twist / long throat or 338 federal.

My 0.02c is, if it is a ‘budget build’ your ONLY option is a used donor barrel that is already threaded for that action. Once you price up the cost of a new barrel and the gunsmithing bill that will go with it, it will be more than double the value of the rifle.

A wishlist of calibres is nice, but you may have to take whatever donor barrel is available.

6x47 is out after looking at some measurements

Ive got a 30 06 barrel off a ruger american could possibly do something with?

Go 308, because Animal Mother sez so!

What's involved in rechambering a 3006 barrel to 308? I have a low round count 3006 barrel lucky if its had 100 rounds through it before I took it off, so I was looking at rifle and barrel today and that would be a cheap way of putting a good barrel on it in a cartridge that will fit the mag etc. Do you have to cut the knox? (fat bit) completely off and rechamber or partially off as it would need rethreading as well?

A gunsmith may correct me on this, but I think that if the untapered barrel shank area is long enough, it can be rethreaded and taken back into the reciever far enough to cut a .308 chamber.