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20nickels:

--- Quote from: bkoenig on March 19, 2012, 05:03:58 PM ---I missed this the first time around.  Are you going to turn the barrel down?  Those old machine gun barrels are massive.

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Yes, Methinks about 7/8" or so.  That's about the sizes of the Muzz devices I like.  It's a big tube, weighs like 6 lbs.  Some are just screwing the UK59 tube in as is and shooting with it but without some sort of lock collar fabricated to butt up against the rec. I don't think this is very ideal.  The Mosin rec. is designed for 3 lb tubes not 6!  I have some interesting new threads on other forums archived on this barrel if you're interested.

bkoenig:
I started building a similar project a couple of years ago.   I had a barrel blank reamed & threaded for 7.62x54R.  It's headspaced and just needs torqued down to the receiver, but I need to figure out what I'm going to do for a stock.  I originally bought a Richards Microfit stock and it's junk.  Looks like a drunken chimpanzee did the inletting with a crowbar.  They didn't even bother to inlet the barrel & action straight in the stock, and it's so thick that the bottom metal won't match up to the receiver.  I should have asked for my money back but I let it set for a long time before I tried to actually put everything together.  I'll probably buy a Boyd's stock.  That was going to be my winter project this year, but I never got around to it.

20nickels:
Walther tube?
Sorry to hear about the stock.  Couple of options.  Tikka stocks fit with minimal work, flat bottomed rec.  There's a guy that sells benchrest stocks on ebay occasionally.  I wouldn't be surprised if a synthetic stock appears with all the Mosin's out there.
I'm still unsure how much turn in you can expect in torquing the barrel.

bkoenig:
Yep, it's a LW barrel. 

Boyd's actually makes a few different stock styles now, and they're reasonably priced.

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