Good info aalf, glad you confirmed it was Ok to cut off some on the shank end. The CF blank I have is supposed to finish @ 24", but it looks like if I can cut off 3/4" on the shank and up to another inch on the muzzle I could be really close to 23" or a little less which would be perfect.
Standard procedure on any barrel is to cut at least an inch off the muzzle end of a new blank due to "belling" of the bore from lapping. Bartlein doesn't want much more than one inch taken off these, there's only two inches total there on carbons.
Since mine was going to be a 6x47 Lapua, he didn't see a problem taking 3/4" off the shank. Obviously a bigger (longer) chamber could be a no no.
Did you smith have any commits on how the barrel looked overall??
He never mentioned anything out of the ordinary.
