Winchester 94 AE

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redneckerson38

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after shooting my guns at the range last weekend, I try to clean at least one gun a night, but I was cleaning my 94 and after running a bore snake through her a couple times I put the bore light ( that I just got) on her, and I seen what looked like a dark ring about 2 inches from the crown, I guess that explains the fliers. The Only thing I can think to do is buy a new barrel. I'll just have to take it to my local gunsmith that handdles all of my FFL transfers, and see what he says.
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New barrel? No sir, no need for that. Just have the smith reduce the barrel length back past the wear ring.
 
That sir, sounds like a better idea, and probably half the cost.
I'm just not sure what direction I want to go yet, you see, I'm in the middle of cleaning up an old glenfield model 60 with the squirrel on the stock, and while looking at pics of glenfields. I came across a model 30A (marlin336 in 30-30) with a deer in the stock, and I instantly wanted one.
So my dilemma is do I spend money on the winny 94, and keep saving to have the 30a as another nice one, or sell the winny for what I can, with description of her bad barrel, and put that money towards the 30a.
Money is tight right now in these tough times, but the winny was my first gun, and I know I would regret selling her, but after cutting it up or doing major surgery, I'm not sure it would be the same.
 
So my dilemma is do I spend money on the winny 94, and keep saving to have the 30a as another nice one, or sell the winny for what I can, with description of her bad barrel, and put that money towards the 30a.
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Keep the winny and buy the 30A, then repair the 94 when you can. Its an easy fix that you could do yourself. There's plenty of good info out there on how to shorten and recrown a rifle barrel. The hardest part, in my mind, is reinstalling the front sight...I would probably let a smith or machinist cut that dovetail. But you may be more handy than I. :)
 
That sounds like pretty good advise, except she's wearing a scope now, so I probably wouldn't even mess with the front sight, and I guess if I eff it up, Its not going to hurt the resale value anyway.
 
It would be hard to screw up if you have a piece of straight angle iron to guide the cut. Just clamp it on and use padding of some sort to keep it from marring. I would just use some tape. I have seen some great recrowning jobs using a brass carriage bolt and a drill with some lapping compound. Research first, measure twice and cut once!
 
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