How to do it right, 2x M1?

[browningautorifle]

I have the poor USGI barrel with a block I could remove if I could figure out how.

Not hard. Just make a set of barrel blocks and an action wrench, need a good big vise and they come right apart. It's assembly that takes a bit more attention.

[BVZ24]

The barrel is not on any receiver. I'm referring to the block with the threaded hole for the scope mount. It's pressed, then pinned, with the hole to the pin peened. I'd have to drill out the pin, and then figure out how to press it off. I'm thinking I stick the barrel down a piece of thickwall pipe, with the pipe resting on the block, and throw a bottle jack on the threaded end then jack it into a brick wall.

[browningautorifle]

I'd have to drill out the pin, and then figure out how to press it off.

A proper hydraulic press would work best, I actually justified buying one for work similar. Not expensive but well worth having.