Barrel Cutting and Recrowning

[patrickkntn69]

Well the title say it all. I have any Mosin I want to shorten the Barrel and Recrown who in or near in wilson county do you recommend or is this something I can do????

[Hozzie]

You can do it yourself if your so inclined.  MidwayUSA has a video on how to do it with handtools.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b43odFm0mrI

[Jonnin]

If you want a halfway accurate rifle, the crown must be correct, so depending on your tools and skills you  may want to get help with it.  If the rifle is in rough shape, it matters less as even a perfect crown won't make it any better beyond a certain point.

 

There is another technique for giving life back to a worn out barrel.  Its called a counter-bore, and many folks say it really helps a worn out milsurp rifle to shoot for a while longer.

 

If your barrel is in good shape, cutting on it is generally a bad idea --- devalues the gun and doing it right takes some skill (see above).  You can do it, of course, and if you do it right, you can produce a decent custom rifle from it.   Its your call on that.   However, if your barrel is in good shape, its atypical, and therefore you did, as I said, devalue a better / more collectable example.  So basically if its worth bothering to cut on, its in too good a shape to cut on.  Exception would be if only the business end of the barrel is worn out, which is possible I suppose, and that would make doing  it worthwhile for that specific situation.

 

Someone within an hour of you can surely do this, but  I have no idea who it would be.    Good luck with it!

[peejman]

Unless you just want to shorten it, counter boring it is a lot easier.