I've swapped a barrel on an early style 110 from 30/06 to 264 magnum. I have swapped the bolthead and extractor to magnum style, and the extractor does not seem to want to grab the go/no go gauges to pull them out. I'm guessing it will do the same with cases and this will be a problem.
Also, the barrel indexes almost 90 degrees off (this model has sights) when headspace is set correctly. Is there a way a guy w/o machinery can deepen a chamber to get a Savage 110 barrel to index correctly? It would need to go about 85 degrees further. I rented headspace gauges from Elk Ridge Reamers in my hometown. Is there such a thing as reamers that I can use to deepen a chamber by hand or is this a gunsmith only show at this point???
Thanks for any help.
_______________________________________________________ An 8 dollar driveway boy living in a T-111 shack
You can deepen the chamber with a reamer which should be available from the rental outfit, but there is also the issue of the clearance between the bolt nose and the barrel. As you screw the barrel in another quarter turn, this clearance will decrease by about ..015". This amount should be faced off the back of the barrel. Or you could just live with the writing in the wrong place.
If you want to keep the sights you'll need to get it to a smith.
He'll have to clock the sights properly, turn the butt end of the barrel off to play nice with the bolt and cut the chamber deeper.
It's beyond my barrel swapping skills too.
Good luck
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Not only does the thing need to index but the rear sight boss needs to fit the stock. I don't know if these photos are any good, but here it is headspaced right. The action is almost a full quarter turn off.
_______________________________________________________ An 8 dollar driveway boy living in a T-111 shack
Not exactly the same situation but shows had reaming.
He would get more answers if the dipstick had fewer people on ignore. Seriously, Roy. You couldn't Google this up or figure it out from looking at Brownells or a Midway catalog?
When it's clocked correctly is the chamber short? When clocked correctly is the bolt clearance correct?
If the answer to both of these questions is in the affirmative then you can ream this by hand no lathe needed. get your headspace and timing correct then address the extraction problem. Good luck