On Wed, 19 Dec 2018 08:01:50 +1100, James
wrote:

On 18/12/18 7:21 pm, John B. Slocomb wrote:
On Tue, 18 Dec 2018 16:14:27 +1100, James
wrote:


My .222 Remington has a stainless barrel that was re-bored from .17, and
the action is bedded in fibreglass and the barrel floated. A Remington
Model 700.

The Remington 700 was probably one of the best actions ever made. But
re-bored? Wouldn't it have been cheaper to just rebarrel?


I bought the rifle from a friend. He wore out the original barrel, then
had the stainless .17 barrel fitted, wore that out and had it re-bored
to .222 before I bought it. You would have to ask him for the reasoning.

My thought that it might be cheaper is probably because I re-barreled
many actions but had no facilities to re-bore and rifle an old barrel
:-)

cheers,

John B.