511 barrel length

publius

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I have a Rem. 511 .22 bolt action that I bought from a friend in high school. The barrel had obviously ben cut and recrowned. My 12 year old daughter shoots it. Anyway.... I just measured the barrel for the heck of it, 15 1/2". If I remember correctly, it has to be 16. Am I on the wrong side of the law?
 
Yep. Every now and then I see 51X barrels on gunbroker. They are interchangeable between any of the 51X series so you can easily fix the problem.
 
What's funny is that this gun was stolen from me a few weeks ago when my deer camp was broken into in Mississippi. Sheriff's dept. caught them the next day and called me to come get my guns. Not a word about the barrel, they probably didn't know, and if they did, a rural Sheriff's dept. in MS probably feels the same as we do about those "Federal boys" (ATF). I will be getting a new barrel, the numrich barrels are probably not real Remington barrels are they?
 
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