ORIGINAL: 8mm/06
Does anybody have a ballpark guess on what a good price would be for someone to cut a new chamber on an old barrel?
I have an old model 38 arisaka carbine with a very sloppy chamber....it might not even be worth the cost of the re-chambering b/c the barrel may also be too tired, ...but let's say it had a good bore and bad chamber. In this case I would be asking someone to rechamber a 6.5 X 50 Japanese chamber to 6.5 X 55 Swedish. I know the action would handle the pressures of average Swede loads... and suspect the re-cutting of the chmber would give me a much improved chamber.
Anyway, just curios about what it would cost to have someone do this WITHOUT removing the barrel.
After WWII, the "standard" rechambering of the 6.5X50 Arisalka was to a round made by expanding the necks of .257 Roberts cartridges to 6.5mm with no other change. These were called the 6.5X257, or "Spence Specials", (if i recall), and closely resembled the 6.5X57mm Mauser which would be another possibility. But I see no reason why the 6.5X55mm case would not be just as good. Either of these willclean up the Arisaka chamber, probably w/o requiring the barrel to be set back since either is quite a bit larger than the 6.5X50mm Japanese in all dimensions........