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It doesn't matter what brand of anything it is, d223 will always get a crappy one.

I really lost count of the Pac-Nor barrels I have. I use them because they offer both Savage prefits and Remington 700 barrels with a Savage type nut.

I did have one Remington 40X action rebarreled by them, including having a Holland recoil lug installed. However, Pac-Nor doesn't drill the action for the recoil lug locator pin. So what I do now is send any new bare Remington action off to Greg Tannel and have the bolt double sleeved, firing pin bushed and pin ground to fit, the lugs matched, and a double pin recoil lug installed. I do not have the action face trued or the barrel threads single-pointed as I want to retain the factory dimensions for swap barrels. The new production bare Remington actions are close enough that they don't really need truing. Then I order up a Pac-Nor barrel with the Rem-Nut in whatever length, chambering, contour, twist, rifling style and groove count, finish and muzzle brake I want.

In fact, later today a new 24" Polygonal Rifled, 1:10" twist, Pac-Nor Remington 700, Varmint Contour barrel with Rem-Nut, Vais muzzle brake, chambered in .308 Winchester, is scheduled for UPS delivery. Pac-Nor has become busy, I was quoted 8 to 10 weeks last August, but that stretched out to almost 7 months. No big deal all the custom makers are swamped, Hart and Shilen have taken as long or longer, and I am also waiting for a new Brux barrel for a Savage that will take as long. These are all prefit barrels that I install.

Don't worry about accuracy. Here's a 10 shot group from one of the Pac-Nor barrels. This was a 1:9" twist, polygonal rifled Savage contour barrel, that I installed on a Savage Precision Target Action. Conditions were just right, no wind at all, fog just above the firing line, no morons with a .338 Lapua sitting near me, and I didn't hiccup.



P.S. The new Remington 783 has an action that mimics the Savage Target Action, uses a barrel nut that fits the Savage wrench, and can have barrels interchanged the same way. The 783 also uses a floating bolt head, now if they will swap out between standard and magnum . . . hummm!?

If you send them an action to be trued and barrel fitted, will they do any specific work for setting throat length for a specific bullet?

3 shots in the hole on the right during break in..

Remmy Mountain rifle contour cut to 21". Shoots 140 BT's and Partitions to the same POI at 200 yards. The stock is a TI take-off.
PacNor did all the barrel and bolt work and they were right on their delivery time. I'm very pleased.

Maybe I am unlucky. I had them do two barrel jobs for me, a 338-06AI post 64 Win 70 that was a 1.5MOA '06 and shot 1.25 with the new barrel and action work. Figuring it was the action I had a Rem 700 donor rebarreled to 280AI and it was almost MOA.