Daren Thompson
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I am trying to rebarrel a 1938 Turkish Mauser as an experiment . I have never rebarreld a rifle and thought I would try this. The barrel is an 8mm replacement like the original. I bought the book by Jerry Kuhnhausen and have given this a try. One thing about the book is that it makes reference to needing a lot of special tools. I am using two pipe wrenches and a vise. Before ypu cringe keep in mind this is just a cheap rifle and I am doing it for kicks (but I do want to shoot it) I have used a dial caliper to measure and compare the distances between the two torque shoulders, in other words from the end of the barrel to the raised part past the threads. The threads on the barrel and in the reciever look good. The toque shoulder in the reciever looks real good. Here is my problem , the barrel screws in by hand about half way and the starts to get tight. With the wrenches I can screw the barrel in the rest of the way (tight), but when the barrel bottoms in the reciever it is indexed wrong. A lot wrong about 90 degrees off. I know the I can not get this thing turned in the reciever until it indexes right, and this would go way past how much torque the book says to apply.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Daren
Any ideas?
Thanks
Daren