Now what?

[C Valentine]

Done

My smith drilled into the base hole and drilled out the damaged threads. How he did that without touching the threads of the base hole, I will never know, but that's why he is a gunsmith and I am not! Barrel screwed right off and could be used again, but after looking at it through his borescope I can't imagine ever putting it back on a rifle....the only way I can describe it is like a railroad track complete with crossties! Was horrified when I saw the difference between that barrel and a new custom, hand lapped barrel. And as convinced as I was that I cleaned that barrel thoroughly, there was still copper all over the lands. Going to have to do a better job on the new barrel. I suspect that a hand lapped barrel will be easier to keep clean if I break it in properly. Hope so.

 

[Tim Singleton]

Great news. Glad it worked out

 

[Gundoktr]

Set the barrel/action up in the mill and drill the holes into the barrel a bit; then just tap out the extra depth with the correct tap, 6-48 I assume, this should take care of any peened over area, simple fix.

 

[Erik Cortina]

Looks to me like the manufacturers would make base screws of a softer metal than the barrel threads so this wouldn't happen when some gorilla goes to tighten them down and they are too long!

If we dummy proof everything, we will breed a new kind of dumb. The guy installing the screws was playing "gunsmith" when he should not have, that's all there is to it.

 

[savageshooter86]

Mine did this but not that bad. Felt like if I took barrel off I would mess something up. But I just twisted it off and it didn't mess anything up. Just a slight spot to get past when putting barrel back on/off but nothing serious. The screw on my EGW base was too long and when torqued to spec, it almost really messed up thread on barrel

Hope you get it