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Found an old remington #6 at the local flea market this spring and decided it needed a home.

Rusted bore, no rifling to speak of, so..
I took a leap and ordered a piloted bit and a chamber reamer from Brownell's, and a liner from Dixie Gun works.

I'm no machinist, but it seems to shoot.

Today I got a few groundhogs with it, and had to wonder how many kids over the years did the same with it.

Fine weapon

'poor little critters'

Outstanding!

What's it chambered in?

Give life to them old puppies. I just picked up another Stevens Favorite today, the barrel is trashed as is the butt stock but the the receiver other than some surface rust it fine and action is tight as a tick. It may become a 17" .22 WMR carbine in the near future!

Oh, it is a take down to boot, cost me a whole 10 bucks so far. Now I need a new stock & barrel liner......... maybe a Lyman receiver sight ....... OH man, I think I am in trouble again!

Bristoe- .22 lr Considered a 17 mach 2 but it didn't seem right, maybe next one. Never relined a bore before and was suprised how easy it was.

T Lee- I can see this could be addicting, its relatively cheap fun, but I didn't do as well as you at $10.00.

Dang, its just so much fun to just shoot the thing! Simple single shot, no scopes.

Heck it needed a breechblock spring, and it was simple to make one out of a used milwaukee sawzall blade!

Stock was replaced rather ham handed by somebody. It had a pistol grip but I sanded that out to make it look a little more like it was. And I had to replace the front sight with one laying around.

It went through several boxes of super aguila sp? and promotional federals, but winchester powerpoint did the deed tonight.

Looks like a fun project, with good results.

I'm curious---I see you use JB to secure the liner in the barrel. Do you try to JB the whole length of the liner or just the ends, or what?
Years ago, a friend/gunsmith relined a .25-20 for me and he commented that he just epoxied the end of the liner and not the whole length. I've wondered ever since how others do it.

I coated the whole length, although it seemed a lot got pushed out when i slid the liner in.

I would guess doing the ends on a 22 at least would work.
I used these instructions from brownells, but didn't use acraglass obviously. http://www.brownells.com/userdocs/learn/Inst-143%20Barrel%20Liner.pdf

I chambered after installation too, so didn't follow the instructions too closely

Not knowing; I would think one would want all airspace filled between the liner and the barrel for even disipation of heat. Lots of emphasis on the not knowing part...

Cool. Way cool. I wish I had the machinery and the ability to do that kind of work. I have an old Remington rolling block 20 guage that I would love to have made into a 45-70 but the cost would be more than buying a good replica. Makes a neat wall hanger though.
Thanks for the post.

I have one of these neat little rifles that has seen better days as well. Chambers eroded some so that you need to pry out the empty casing after each shot, but it's still accurate to minute of Red squirrel! LOL

Did you drill that barrel dry or with oil?

lots of oil.

If you see the syringe on the lathe in the first pic, there is a small hose attached that I put in the other end of the barrel.

I just pushed oil through the barrel as I drilled 1 inch at a time between cleaning the drill flutes off.

Again I'm no machinist and don't know if that was the best way to do it but I was told I can't use too much oil, so I took that advice to heart.

Funny you mention that. I was worried the epoxy would act as as insulator and not dissipate heat without a metal to metal contact.

About 10 years ago one of my uncles in PA took me to one of
his friends house to visit with him. While we were there of
course we talked about guns and hunting. The gentleman went
into his den and brought out a Stevens single shot in 32RF
if I remember correctly and I swear that gun was in such great
shape that it must of sat in a closet for the last 75 years.
Every one I usually see is pretty beat up.

ruger438---Is that a South Bend lathe?

no. its a a Logan

What speed did you run?

I'm thinking on doing this on my SB seems it would be a lot easier than what they have on the Brownells site.