Chambering cost's and time required ?
- Thread starter muleman69
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To properly chamber an AI, the barrel has to be set back a thread so there is a little more to it than just "punching it out". Probably 2 hours. WH
DaveTooley
Gold $$ Contributor
More time, more work, than starting with a new barrel for me.
Danley
Danley Precision
I 100% agree!
It always takes a little longer to find out where the bodies are buried on reworks like this. Cut from blank mo betta.
I no longer rechamber previously chambered barrels for any reason. There is no way to know what, or if, anything is wrong with it before starting.
And then you own anything the guy before you did...right or wrong.
"all ya gotta do is..."
Dusty Stevens
Shiner
My blood pressure just spiked.
Chamber it for 22 Nosler...no wildcat...factory brass, available, fits 223 bolt. Or trade for a 22-250 run low velocity loads and barrel would probably last as long as high pressure 223 Ackley, with more velocity. Or leave it as a 223, probably what I'd do with a Ruger predator, with a factory barrel. JMO...
paperpuncher
Gold $$ Contributor
Yep this was a trigger for me back in the day.
"I have an easy job for you ..." I love that statement from someone who does not know what goes into the h=job because if they did they would have done it. I would get this a lot when I did computer programming and often the hardest part of the job was understanding in extreme detail what they wanted.
Customers sometimes would get frustrated as I tried to nail down what they wanted BEFORE I did the job, otherwise I would be told in extreme detail why what I delivered was not what they wanted.
Customers sometimes would get frustrated as I tried to nail down what they wanted BEFORE I did the job, otherwise I would be told in extreme detail why what I delivered was not what they wanted.
Cigarcop
Silver $$ Contributor
So to re indicate it in, possibly off some rough lands and grooves, pick up the threads again if needed and rechamber…. You think most would only charge approx 1/3 of the cost??!!
Shit if I would!
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Dusty Stevens
Shiner
It takes as long or longer to rechamber a barrel than to do it from a blank. Add $100 to original price if they will even rechamber period
LVLAaron
Gold $$ Contributor
I've cut exactly 1 chamber so take it for what it's worth, but I think the amount of effort isn't going to be terribly different. Probably worse because you're dealing with an old barrel like others have said.
It'd be well worth your time, money, and investment to get a new barrel and have that set up the way you want it.
It'd be well worth your time, money, and investment to get a new barrel and have that set up the way you want it.
Same as "I've got this used barrel I bought on Ebay"...
No way. If it doesn't shoot, it's "my fault".
FWIW, I had three chamber jobs done at one time recently. One was a short chambered Rem 700, the other two were Mausers that I had purchased pre-chambered new barrels for. One was short chambered, the other long chambered. The ‘smith said he had about 6-1/2 hours invested in the three. Cost to me was $650 which is probably not bad considering. I bet they spent more than 6-1/2 hours on them.
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