Quote Originally Posted by Peter Laidlericon View Post
If you bring the barrel back a turn, then you have to bring the muzzle end of the fore-end and top handguard back too, unless you slip the block, band, foresight forwards by that amount (a bit of a bodge really...........) Then you've got to re-fit the fore-end at the knox form to bed it again against the shallower taper....................

Get a used but good barrel!

Never said it was easy, just an option, no need to bodge, ( basic maths really ...) bedding goes without saying.

Would totaly agree on the " Used but good " barrel, plus its quicker.

But as Thunderbox pointed out No 4 barrels are becoming scarce (in the UKicon), not many buckets full on hand any more.
Last lot of barrels I had heard of were P14 barrels at scotarms, but dont know what the condition was, would suspect they were the leftovers of when the fasion of the day was to convert a nice P14 to a target rifle.