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I finally got all my ducks in a row after many hours of practice and buying tooling. First barrel to practice was a cheap green mountain 6.5mm barrel will be finished at 25.5", threaded 1" 16tpi for a M70 LA. I have a few more kinks to work out with my flush system before chambering it in 6.5-06 but hopefully next week ill get it chanmbered and crowned.

I built the outboard spider and used a bald eagle spider plate on the spindle. I used a range rod and dialed the barrel into .0004" TIR, took me about 4hours total so i called it good at .0004"TIR. Turned down the tenon to .995" then threaded it 16tpi. Came back and squared up the shoulder with a sharp threading insert to get rid of the small radius my HSS cutter left. I think it turned out pretty good.