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Should you decide to go the rebore route.
I have some .338/06 Ack Imp dies and brass from a long departed rifle I would let go cheep.
Dodging lions and wasting time.....
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Should you even think about the suggested .35 caliber reboring, do yourself a favor, find and read the recent post here on that subject.... it might change our mind.
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Steven,
Do you have a link to the post?
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Steven,
Do you have a link to the post? My guess is that he is referring to this post 35 whelen questionable reboring
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Thanks, now I remember.
Recoil Rob its has been a month since your last post on the subject, any feedback yet from JES?
Last edited by LRF; 12/20/16 11:16 AM.
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Rob's experience on reboring is sad, but would not put me off from having a gun rebored. If I got a new gun, new barrel, or had a barrel rebored; the first thing I do is slug the bore. It's hard to choose a bullet or load if I have no idea of the bore size? Had the new bore been slugged before any ammo was fired in the gun, the issue of a small bore would have come to light immediately, and sent back to JES to be rectified. I'm not excusing JES for not doing it right the first time! A customer shouldn't have to return a barrel to be redone. But any shooter should know what he's working with before sending the first round down range.
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David, my Sedgley (not the Christmas one) is rebored to 375 Whelen. Looks as original as day one other than the added caliber marking and the fact the hole up front is bigger. I got it from an individual in Alaska who found one with a poor bore and then had it rebored. It worked well for him and is serving me well also.
Thaine
Last edited by Thaine; 12/20/16 06:20 PM.
It ain't ignorance that does the most damage, it's knowing so derned much that ain't so! J. Billings
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Gentlemen,
After my conversation with JES he agreed to re-bore my re-bore to a .349 bore and also recut the throat. It seems he's had some problems with tight throats with his guns.
As mentioned his turn around time is good, the gun was returned to me on Monday. With the holidays and bow season coming to a close I have not had time to check anything and it may be a few weeks before I do but I will report back. At the least next week I'll try to slug the barrel again to see if it's really at .349.
In the interim yet another guy who had a .35 Whelen rebored by JES and had problems has stepped forward,, a Rem. 7600 blowing primers, the solution seems to have been recutting the throat.
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Rob
My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.
- Errol Flynn
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I agree with this, hindsight is 20-20, but I had always planned on using factory loads so it should not have been an issue. I suppose if I was reloading I would have paid more attention to it. I certainly will if I ever do another. Rob's experience on reboring is sad, but would not put me off from having a gun rebored. If I got a new gun, new barrel, or had a barrel rebored; the first thing I do is slug the bore. It's hard to choose a bullet or load if I have no idea of the bore size? Had the new bore been slugged before any ammo was fired in the gun, the issue of a small bore would have come to light immediately, and sent back to JES to be rectified. I'm not excusing JES for not doing it right the first time! A customer shouldn't have to return a barrel to be redone. But any shooter should know what he's working with before sending the first round down range.
My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.
- Errol Flynn
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Sorry for the thread drift...
In the entire story there seems to be a lack of something important. Nobody has pinned it down: A lack of Knowledge, experience, measuring capabilities, accurate measuring tools, judgement, patience?
Certainly something missing to make an obvious problem such a mystery yet a pattern of problems experiences?
Cutting bores that cannot be readily measured is odd, in my opinion. Why do it that way, because it is easier, quicker?
I'm not down on reboring, just someone in a big hurry to get the work out, cutting throats undersize then learning about it because of repeated pressure problems?
Not my barrel or my client's, thank you.
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