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Equipment & Gear => Guns and Ammo => Topic started by: high country on December 22, 2010, 05:00:24 PM

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Title: here is my $50 barrel recontour
Post by: high country on December 22, 2010, 05:00:24 PM

best value  I have came across in a long time. here is a before....sorry for the crappy comp of the pic, but look how big that sucker was.
(https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi193.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fz16%2Fgyonemura%2F014.jpg&hash=965ba8be91bbda6ad8bda7f4a22d975e92b5b326)
these are after

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(https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi193.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fz16%2Fgyonemura%2F005.jpg&hash=412936e69a95d05f9540097815f76a5f3bd28f35) (https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi193.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fz16%2Fgyonemura%2F004.jpg&hash=99e48668de0223e991b07bd51b640857a5293111)

Title: Re: here is my $50 barrel recontour
Post by: FC on December 22, 2010, 05:57:46 PM

How much weight did that take out of the rifle? It looks good btw.

Title: Re: here is my $50 barrel recontour
Post by: high country on December 22, 2010, 06:46:10 PM

just shy of 2 lbs.

Title: Re: here is my $50 barrel recontour
Post by: fremont on December 24, 2010, 09:15:42 AM

What did you do?

Title: Re: here is my $50 barrel recontour
Post by: jackelope on December 24, 2010, 09:51:05 AM

for us un-knowing ones, can you explain what happened there?
Pro's and con's of doing it??

Title: Re: here is my $50 barrel recontour
Post by: high country on December 26, 2010, 01:59:46 PM

I took the barrel from a target taper, which was a constant taper from the 1.20 shank to .95 at the muzzle. the new taper is 2 lbs lighter and starts at the shank and tapers similar to a magnum sporter rem 700 300barrel. way lighter. the down side is potentially reduced accuracy. I saw no change to speak of....course I am using a 2-7 heavy plex scope.....but it is still doing sub moa so I am tickled.

Title: Re: here is my $50 barrel recontour
Post by: Dean44 on January 24, 2011, 04:43:57 AM

high country,

Where did you have the work done?

Title: Re: here is my $50 barrel recontour
Post by: high country on January 24, 2011, 08:04:43 AM

Quote from: Dean44 on January 24, 2011, 04:43:57 AM

high country,

Where did you have the work done?

mel doyle did it for me. I have since mounted one of the 3-9x40 4200's and went on to rip the best group of my life with it.

Title: Re: here is my $50 barrel recontour
Post by: superdown on January 24, 2011, 08:09:00 AM

looks nice can you post a pic with the new scope :)