Antietamgw
posted this
06 April 2009
Thank you Ed. That neck is even tighter than my Bullberry .30-30. Was wondering which way to go. Obviously, I'll shoot it first as is. It will need some bedding work - barreled action looks like a rocking horse in the wood without guard or barrel band screw holding it. I stripped it and a Rem 700 “bowling alley finish” stock the other day and will get the wood bedded, bumps and bruises straightened out and refinished before I use it. Your suggestion to open the neck a bit occurred to me, the idea of using my 32 H&R reamer did not. I'd been talking myself into a .30-30 reamer. My original thinking was set the barrel back far enough to clean up the .315 area, order a reamer with a close neck - .334 maybe, a .312 ball seat and 1degree leade. Then again, if it shoots plinking loads well and heavier hunting loads acceptably, I could just leave it alone and enjoy it!
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