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* HELP I have a early fifties FN commercial Mauser. I need to know the barrel diameter 3'' +- in front of the stock. I don't have calipers and my gunsmith is 100 miles away. Can anyone help? thanks capt david
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Sure, the easy fix to the problem is to head to Harbor Freight and buy a cheap dial caliper. Seriously, it's $20 bucks.
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If I have to, but that's 40 miles, thanks capt david
"It's not how hard you hit 'em, it's where you hit 'em." The 30-06 will, with the right bullet, successfully take any game animal in North America up to 300yds.
If you are a hunter, and farther than that, get closer!
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* HELP I have a early fifties FN commercial Mauser. I need to know the barrel diameter 3'' +- in front of the stock. I don't have calipers and my gunsmith is 100 miles away. Can anyone help? thanks capt david If you don't need perfect accuracy, wrap a string around the barrel at the point you want to measure. Carefully mark where the string ends overlap. Take off the string and measure between the marks using a standard ruler to get the circumference. Divide by 3.14 to get the diameter. I reckon you'd get diameter within 0.01" with care. Calipers are still the better option.
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* HELP I have a early fifties FN commercial Mauser. I need to know the barrel diameter 3'' +- in front of the stock. I don't have calipers and my gunsmith is 100 miles away. Can anyone help? thanks capt david If you don't need perfect accuracy, wrap a string around the barrel at the point you want to measure. Carefully mark where the string ends overlap. Take off the string and measure between the marks using a standard ruler to get the circumference. Divide by 3.14 to get the diameter. I reckon you'd get diameter within 0.01" with care. Calipers are still the better option. The edge of a sheet of paper works better than string for accuracy. Use a knife to nick the edges where they overlap and it will be mighty close.
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This is why I need the measurements. capt david
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"It's not how hard you hit 'em, it's where you hit 'em." The 30-06 will, with the right bullet, successfully take any game animal in North America up to 300yds.
If you are a hunter, and farther than that, get closer!
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If yours is a JC Higgins 50 with the factory barrel, I can help. So many different barrel contours out there that were screwed into those excellent FN actions....
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Get on Amazon and order a caliper. You'll have it in a couple days and you can measure it accurately yourself. Besides, everybody should have a caliper around for all kind of measuring duties...
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