Due to unforeseen circumstances, I stumbled onto an unclaimed carbon wrapped barrel at Bartlein, which I posted about previously on my barrel weight PSA thread.

So this one is an 8" twist 6mm, 25" long, in their Remington Varmint contour.

Blank weight came in at 3 pounds, 6.6 ounces.

I really wanted a 23" blank, to finish at 22", but, a bird in the hand........

I asked about maximum lengths to trim off at each end, and was told they would be OK with cutting 3/4" off the shank, and 1 1/4" off the muzzle.

Generally I like to have the smith cut a half inch off the shank on other Rem Varmints, as it matches up better in McMillans inletted for those contours. But then, that's for the typical 1.250" shanked barrels. With these being 1.200", it would actually look worse, so I opted to leave it full length, take the normal 1" off the noisy end, and just finish it at 24".

So I boxed up the barrel, action, and reamer, and off to the smith it went.....tic tock, tic tock....

A few days later, I had yet another 6x47 Lapua in my hot little mitts....

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