ORIGINAL: pa257
I've been thinking about re-barreling my .270 win, which currently has an 18" barrel to a 22" barrel. How hard would it be to re-chamber it to say a .280 rem? Is it possible at all? I have a qoute from Hart barrels for a re-barrel soup to nuts $550. I looked at Shilen's web-site and it looks like they would be around $600+. Should I buy the barrel blank myself and have a gunsmith do it or have the barrel manufacturer do it? Any perference in barrels, Shilen vs. Hart vs. Lilja vs. Douglass etc. Thanks in advance.
IF you wanted to convert your rifle to .280, it would require a rebore job as well as a rechambering job. The .207 shoots .277"-.278" bullets, and a .280 shoots .284" bullets. I don't know if your barrel would permit such a rebore job, because its' present groove diameter is about the same as the land diameter of a .280 barrel. It probably would NOT clean up enough for this work. So you are probably going to have to buy a barrel. There is no problem, however, of merely rebarreling your rifle from .270 to .280, since except for the neck and bullet diameters, these two rounds are almost identical in all other dimensions. So you current action will handle the .280 just as well as it handles the .270.All you need is a barrel. personally, I'd have the barrel maker do the whole job, (if they offer this service), so you don't have to fool with more than one source.
All the barrel makers you named furnish good barrels, including Douglas.
This group was shot with a Douglas Premium Gradebarrel.
