Don't Buy Barrels From Knuckleheads

Con Cross said:
Mr. Crb, please don't get violent.

Con
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I think he's being a gentleman, and just sharing his experience here.

I would not have been so nice, and I would have posted this persons name/company if he sent me a letter like that accusing me of damaging the chamber after the sale.

Every machinist screws up a work piece once and a while. It's up to personal integrity to not allow something like that to leave your shop.

I've read a lot of posts here of people having problems with rifles, and someone chiming in and advising..."I would sell that thing and get rid of it"

I would encourage people not to do that to fellow shooters, it degrades the community.
 
This boils down to the essence of bargainhunting. You have to take the bad with the good, and hope you come out in the long run. I know people who won't buy anything without a factory warranty. They pay top dollar. It is nice to have it both ways, but it doesn't always work that way. Who knows, maybe this is the best barrel you've ever had, and you just don't know it yet :D.
 
Are you going to redo the chamber ??

You said that you had a reamer for the chamber, are you going to re-do it yourself ? The end looks like it has been cut off with a hacksaw, did you do that also? Do you have a lathe to set it up in ? The hole looks like he did it without any lubricant at all, other than than and not cleaning the chips out while doing it is about the only way to make a "MESS" like that. He most likely had an aprentice doing the job, or just plain doesn't care. Anyone who would ship a job like that needs to have his name posted so that others will know "Who not to use". If you need help with it let me know - I do rebarreling and I do it for fun and friends, and postage.

Phantom
 
Great . .

It is really hard to find good cutting oil now a-days. Go to the local Plumbing supply place and buy a gallon of the oil they use to cut pipe threads with, the good ole stuff. It will nearly eliminate any problems with the galling when reaming.

Phantom
 
Lynn, thats the craziest thing. I fired 60 rounds with light loads and greased cases. I then fired about 10 rounds with hotter loads but not HOT loads. The brass looks ok.

The brass that was only fired with light loads and grease will still chamber in my 30BR. The 10 cases that were fired with more powder won't go in the chamber of the 30.

I have a B&L lighted 10x loupe coming so I can easily check the chambers in the future.
 
I have read through this thread a couple times. It appears that it should have been sent back immediately. I don't think that you have any complaints as I read what you and the seller had to say. Everything that you see is visible with the naked eye. I wouldn't sell anything like that as I have never had one like that, but!!!
Butch
 
The issues are up in the chamber towards the shoulder. The back end of the chamber looks fine. I didn't make any effort to get a light and look up in the chamber when I first got the bbl. I should have and always will in the future.

I actually should have never bought the bbl because my intuition was saying not to when I was talking to the guy over the phone. The guy claimed to have done several PD swat team guns etc but that for this bbl he rented a reamer. Hmmm, shouldn't a 'successful' gunsmith be able to afford a reamer ??? I have read Gavin Debecker's book and should know to trust my intuition.
 
crb said:
Hmmm, shouldn't a 'successful' gunsmith be able to afford a reamer ???
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Standard reamers the gunsmith should have or at least add them when needed, but something where a customer wants a certain neck diameter or for non standard wildcat cartridges, the customer is going to buy the reamer and own the reamer when his chamber is done. I've just about quit splitting the cost of reamers with customers as you wind up with reamers that have only been used for one chamber. As to being able to afford a reamer, sure he can, but there comes a time that he gets tired of money going out the door to pay for reamers for off the wall projects. It's not hard to get $10 to 20,000 tied up in chambering reamers. It comes to a point where enough is enough. FWIW, if the gunsmith doesn't have the reamers for most any of the accuracy cartridges being shot today, I'd use another gunsmith.
 
I believe at one time I carried reamers in 92 different calibers and of those 40 were seldom used and another 10 to 15 used once, of some calibers I might have 8 or 10 reamers, and for each cal. you have to have a set of gages. Its easy to get money tied up fast.
 
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