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Message started by FredC on Dec 15th, 2015 at 10:03pm

Title: Re: Sporterizing howto
Post by FredC on Nov 30th, 2017 at 12:03am
In post #11 I mentioned that the reamer was being remade by PTG. I got the reamer later that month and asked some experienced gunsmiths about finishing using the corrected reamer and they said doing it by hand on an assembled barrel and action would be easy as it is done quite often.
So I made a brass extension to allow me to reach through the receiver, then a .010 thick shim to ride on the reamer to keep it from changing the head space. When I original threaded and installed the barrel the head space was set .001 over the minimum or go gauge limit and I did not want to change that. The shim stopped the reamer from advancing when the rim portion of the reamer contacted the shim.
You can see the brass shim stuck on the barrel face, the reamer turned with a little resistance till it hit the shim on the barrel face, then the turning effort went to zero. I had filled the recesses in the receiver with shredded paper towel and modeling clay to make the clean up easier.
With the area just in front of the rim at the correct size, new and resized cartridges chamber and extract easily.
Loads for this rifle were discussed in this thread and fixing the chamber should not change any of the data by more than a smidgen:   (You need to Login
If anyone is interested in doing another 35 Krag I would sell the almost unused reamer for 1/2 price.
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