Re-barrel

[Calif-Steve]

I was a summer school student at Lassen Community College last month. It was a great experience. I took up my Gew98 to have it re-barreled. It is a 1917 Spandau with S42 cut-down barrel. Came out of Spain 1962, I guess. The bore was nearly smooth and a new barrel was necessary. I got it as a cheap barreled/receiver so no collector value at all.
I have a pile of Yugo take-off barrels and have several Kar98k barrels that are mint. The job of removing the old barrel was a real challenge. It would not move, we took it to Pirannah hydraulic vise and slightly crushed the barrel and 2 guys pushed down on the wrench and off it came! It sounded like a .22 round going off! The problem was very interesting. It seemed that the receiver was not fully drilled out for the rear thread. I have no idea how they got the barrel on in 1917, but they did. We had to take off a slight amount of thread from my new barrel. We were able to get the barrel on and saw we were 190 degrees out. We did some quick math and ended up taking off .008 from the shoulder. The barrel fit just right. It was a lot of fun having the teacher be the lead, Buck Bauer ran a superb class. Buck is in Susanville, CA and has his own shop. He is a jewel. I really want to go back for their barreling class later this summer.

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