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I'm thinking about having a .280 Rem reamed to .280 AI. What ball-park price should I expect to pay for this work?

JD

100.00

I'm thinking you'll pay more like $150-$250 to do it right.

To do an AI correctly the barrel must be removed, the shoulder set back a full turn while making sure the stamping and extractor cut if present still index correctly, and then reamed and reinstalled. Stamping the barrel with the AI should also be done. I don't see how it should be any less expensive than a complete rebarrel. In some ways it's more complicated than a rebarrel.

Some folks may do it without it but a proper and true AI needs to have the barrel set back.

Maybe a Professional Gunsmith can chime in on this, am I way off base?

100.00

Hi Road, Sent you a PM.

+1

Paul, are you a 'smith?

How can you set a barrel back and ream to AI and still make a profit charging $100?

You must be well set up and very efficient.

Good for all of us if that is all it costs.

Thanks.

Not a smith but that's all it costs...

I'm with Paul, $100 and not only am I not a smith I don't talk out of my ass.

Apparently I do.

All of the steps I detailed still need to get done but the good 'smiths must be really fast or they work cheap.

$100

$100

Here a deal from Mike Bryant in Tx on rechambering
Re-chambering:
Pricing depends upon what has to be done: $125 is for rechambering with no threading work.
I won't rechamber a factory barrel to a chambering that may or may not clean up with my reamer. For instance, a factory chambering to an Ackley Improved may or may not work depending upon the diameters of your chamber compared to the diameters of my reamer.
From $125.00 to chambering rates.

http://www.bryantcustom.com/pricelis.htm

Maybe I'm dumb but if you're just shaving off the walls and flattening out the shoulder, why would you need to set the barrel back? I can see where it wouldn't work if the chamber was larger than the reamer but...........?

Because a true AI chamber has a headspace dimension .004" SHORTER than the parent case.

Sure wish one of our respected resident gunsmiths would chime in here.
Bea, Redneck, MColeman......anyone?

About $100, but I try to chime in on things I have actual experience with. YMMV

Me too....

Me too.

Except in having to pay someone else to do it for me.

I do my own.

So, you don't know?