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Re-boring a barrel, who do you recommend these days?
Cliff LaBounty's successor in the barrel reboring business is Delta Gun Shop, anyone have one done by the new folks?
I've got a 30-30 I want to make into a 38-55.
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What Make and Model of .30-30 is it?
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Michael: Dan Pedersen did a very nice job for me reboring a .22 Hornet to .32 H&R. The rifle was a Browning Lo-wall. His web site is: http://www.cutrifle.com/Rem
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I just received a new barrel from Delta - not a rebore. You know my bad vision, but it looks great to me!
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I recommend Clearwater Reboring ( I think it's also Delta Gunshop) very highly. They did a 35WCF for me a couple years ago, and the results are superb.
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Never used his services but have seen him recommended on other forums. JES Rifle Reboring, specalizes in lever actions. www.35caliber.com
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I had JES Reboring do a 303 Martini sporter bbl out to 35cal on a 303 case. Excellent work to my eye and the turn around was 2 weeks. Had that done about a year ago, maybe a little more.
He only needed the bbl sent to him for the work. I took the full length rib off to make it easier to work on which he said he appreciated but could have done it w/o. It needed to be relayed anyway.
I had Clearwater (Jim DuBell) do a couple of rebore jobs on revolver bbls for me and the work was excellent. The turnaround was much slower (6/8 months) but that is a common time frame in that part of the trade from what I can gather.
Jim does the rebore work for Hamilton Bowen's pistol conversions.
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The turnaround was much slower (6/8 months) but that is a common time frame in that part of the trade from what I can gather.
When I had Cliff La Bounty do a rebore for me about 10 years ago it took about 18 months so things are getting better.
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The turnaround was much slower (6/8 months) but that is a common time frame in that part of the trade from what I can gather.
When I had Cliff La Bounty do a rebore for me about 10 years ago it took about 18 months so things are getting better. From what I can gather, a lot depends upon just how many similar-size jobs he has waiting. Machine re-setup is time consuming and AFAIK most reborers have waited until they had enough jobs of a certain size to make the lost time economical. For instance I used to use Bob Snapp and have always been super-satisfied with the results, but if I sent him more than one size job it always took a lot longer. 3 or 4 rifles all to the same bore size took less than a year but the same 3 or 4 rifles to 2 different bore sizes always took a lot longer. Regards, Joe
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Thanks for all the input, I'll follow up and see what's out there.
The next question that comes up is there are the old case length 38-55's, the newer, shorter one. Today about all the flat-nose bullets are .375". The older 38-55's were .378-80". Now if I, or the next owner, wanted to shoot jacketed bullets it would make sense to have a .375" bore?
Comments?
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