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Old 01-11-2015, 06:38 PM
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Nomercy448
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Total project including a ~$300-500 barrel might be $500-1,000, but neither a Remington nor Savage DIY would ever cost anyone $1,000 in tools. Even $500 would be stretching it for the tools, the numbers are posted plainly in my last response. Stay in the same cartridge family and you can skip the mag box and bolt/bolt head replacement costs too.

Be sure, wherever you end up buying the Shilen tube from, that you buy a short chambered barrel. Seems that either Midway or Brownells used to get long shank/long chambered barrels, rather than short chambered. As such, of course, they had to be set back on a lathe for headspace.
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