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Thinking about re-barreling a LA rem700 before the McMillan gets here, and I want to try and find an in-stock barrel ASAP.
Anyone know what an equivalent contour from a manufacturer would be for a Remington 700 factory sporter? I know a #3 Bartlein is too chunky as I called and asked.
Yes I know you can order one, but I'm not waiting 6 months.
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A #2 is going to be pretty close, but the shank area will be different than a factory sporter contour. The sporters have virtually no actual shank, but taper all the way to the lau.
What caliber are you looking for? Any particular twist?
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I need to narrow down the twist, but something that can handle 168, 180 and 200 grain.
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I thought a #2 would be the closest, perhaps I should just try and get in touch with McMillan or Rick and alter my order. Believe it might be a whisker too late though
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Lilja carries 1-11 twist #2s on-hand. Should work fine for those bullets
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Modifying a rem sporter contour inlt for a #2 is pretty simple given a little sandpaper, dowel and a few minutes. BTDT a number of times.
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Yeah, called Mickey and I missed the change window. Hmmm
The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment. � WARREN G. BENNIS
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Modifying a rem sporter contour inlt for a #2 is pretty simple given a little sandpaper, dowel and a few minutes. BTDT a number of times. I hate to be a bother, can you post a picture of your handiwork? I'm quite handy myself, so a quick mod is not an issue
The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment. � WARREN G. BENNIS
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unfortunately, I don't have any pics of the ones that I have done. I did it to this stock, and this is a #2 Lilja contour-ed barrel ![[Linked Image]](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v481/Overkill2/DSC_0554.jpg)
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Lilja will recontour one of their in-stock barrels to a remington sporter. 2 week turn around, modest price.
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No worries!
I gave Longrifles Inc a call after work, and got it all sorted out. He said a #3 would drop in, or require a smidge of sanding, so all good with me.
Thanks for those that replied.
The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment. � WARREN G. BENNIS
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Also Longrifles does not work with Lilja barrels for 'tooling' reasons, so I will avoid them based solely on that.
The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment. � WARREN G. BENNIS
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Weird. I would avoid a smith who avoids Lilja.
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Weird. I would avoid a smith who avoids Lilja. I would also,...that's too weird. tooling issues?......
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He gave me a technical explanation, but I was driving, so I don't recall precisely.
His word was good enough for me.
The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment. � WARREN G. BENNIS
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Interesting....... most guys on this forum always seem to say go with the barrel maker that the smith reccomends!
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He said anything BugHoles.com sells was good to go.
Krieger, Brux, Rock, Bartlein, Obermeyer, Mullerworks
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I have 9 brux barrels on order but they're still a few months out. I sent them a rem mag sporter take off and a standard sporter take off so they are going to patern my contours off of those. Most places don't stock the rem sporters but I'm going to keep ordering 10 at a time so I'll have some available soon. I ordered 8 twist .224, 243, 264's and 8.5 twist .284s and 10 twist 308's. I'll probably use 3 or 4 myself and the rest will go to friends and campfire members.
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Bb,
You going to have a standard sporter 243 available? I'd like one if possible. A mag contour 284 would work too.
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