Why not rebore a new and unfired barrel?

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VaniB

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I'm thinking of buying a 17 Fireball VSSF rifle as a donor rifle to have a 20 Fireball (vartarg) rifle smithed for me. But, I'd just as soon keep the factory barrel if possible. A fluted barrel like this ain't cheap at close to $500

Could you guys tell me why barrel companies will not offer to rebore a new barrel into a different caliber?

If it's not a bad thing to do, do you know a company that will do it?
 
Vani

I would amagine that the major barrel makers use a production line method of manufacturing that performs specific functions at a specific time, as the piece of bar stock is transformed into a finished rifled blank.

Being handed a piece of steel, with a hole already in it, and being expected to produce a out of production sequence barrel would probably be classed as a "specialty job", and the cost would reflect this.

In other words, you want to save some money would probably result in you spending more than what the finished product would be worth if you asked someone like Krieger to perform the task........jackie
 
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Thanks gents for the info. Jackie, your reasoning makes sense.

Butch, that sight made very interesting reading until I got checking into the specifics to find out that they don't work on the.20 cal. I guess no big surprise, as the 22 cal bore is much more standardized and is where many specialty shops will start their offerings. But this company is a good source for me to know for future reference. Appreciate it.

EDIT: BTW, I couldn't help but notice that you both joined in Feb of '03 and have almost the identical 4,000 posts on these boards........give or take 30. Butch, he beat you by a hair. Not sure if you win anything Jackie. :D
 
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Butch Lambert said:
Actually Jackie lost a lot of his post sometime in the past.
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Actually, I believe both have been around alot longer than 2003 and have alot more postings than the count shows........what you are seeing is their participation since the last website crash and regeneration that apparently occured in 2003.............Don
 
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I don't post much, but I do remember this board as an old free- for-all bulliten board where anyone can post without having an account. Not sure who remembers what I'm talking about. It consisted of one page with a tree of replies associated with a question. '97 or '98 rings a bell.

Here is a cool site that takes you back in time and view vintage web sites. I checked to see what they have on benchrest.com and the cache goes back to '98. Waybackmachine @ http://www.archive.org/web/web.php
 
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VaniB said:
I'm thinking of buying a 17 Fireball VSSF rifle as a donor rifle to have a 20 Fireball (vartarg) rifle smithed for me. But, I'd just as soon keep the factory barrel if possible. A fluted barrel like this ain't cheap at close to $500

Could you guys tell me why barrel companies will not offer to rebore a new barrel into a different caliber?

If it's not a bad thing to do, do you know a company that will do it?
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Re boring and rifling a factory barrel that has been contoured and chambered is done by cut rifling only. That eliminates many barrel makers to start with.

To re bore and rifle existing chambered and threaded barrels of various dimensions when your total set up is for production of barrel blanks machined to a standard size for your tooling, is a lot more work. Many are busy producing as many good barrels as they can and do not need the slow down and problems trying to accommodate a custom one of a kind job at the price the 'customer' would accept.
 
""Could you guys tell me why barrel companies will not offer to rebore a new barrel into a different caliber? ""

The same result by a different route-'why dont gun companies offer just actions'?, maybe some do. I dont see any reason to buy a $500 barrel and then get it rebarreled or gather dust.

The above is esp noticable in the 10/22 market. Rifles are bought and then the stock, trigger and barrels are discarded?? I suppose the answer is 'they are cheap' and I suppose so am I.


PS-read in Gen discussion--"read this on another posforum"But that is only one company. Where are Winchester, Remington, Ruger etc etc??
 
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