Barrel Chopping Advice

[Redneck1919]

Three....Its a mosin nagant thats being worked on. As such, it is not much more than a Turd fished from the Party Punch Bowl and coated with some Candy Sprinkles.

 

[glocker]

You can use metal hose clamps to guide your hacksaw, a piece of angle metal, or square tubing that will fit over the barrel. Oil the cutting area, with wd 40, gear lube, or something similar. http://www.amazon.com/Squirrel-Dadd...pebp=1437598180539&perid=1N152VJQVH3K8JDTJMJP
One of these is what I use to crown the muzzle.

 

[Hayata]

Post pics of your progress!

 

[snatch3838]

I understand. That a lee case trimmer will square off the muzzle for you on a 22 not a target crown but for your job it just might work

 

[Sharps40]

Well, its a shame the supply of top quality but inexpensive war mausers and Interarms mausers and VZ mausers and early commercial set trigger mausers is dried up and gone forever.

So, I spose folks'll have to cut they gunsmith teeth on them mosins. But is sure seems a shame to me, them poor younger fellers chawin on a dried up ol doggy doughnut they found layin outin tha yard when us oldsters got to gnaw on them good silverqueen ears!

But yeah, post pics and before and after targets. Betcha lots of fellers'll be suprized to see decent groups before and after.

 

[jeffdt]

Well, its a shame the supply of top quality but inexpensive war mausers and Interarms mausers and VZ mausers and early commercial set trigger mausers is dried up and gone forever.

So, I spose folks'll have to cut they gunsmith teeth on them mosins. But is sure seems a shame to me, them poor younger fellers chawin on a dried up ol doggy doughnut they found layin outin tha yard when us oldsters got to gnaw on them good silverqueen ears!

Sawot you say?

 

[Sharps40]

I say day ain't nothin much left out ther in a young mans small budget to polish up but some turds.

 

[BHJ]

A lee case trimmer will do the job. Use a .308 case length gauge as a pilot and chuck the case trimmer in a drill if you want to speed it up.

Heres before after filing it

and here's after
A lee case cutter is about $12 and a case length gauge is about another $4 if you dont already have one.
Takes just a few minutes to do.

The old school gunsmiths crowned many a rifle with a slotted head brass screw in a drill and some lapping compound'
a dab of cold blue and you're done.

 

[letusbuyyourcar]

They make tools to do a reasonable crown job with a drill. That being said, the right way is on the lathe. If you want a Mosin barrel chopped and crowned at 24" it can be done pretty easy. That's long enough just to stick through the head on my lathe. It can be done for a lot cheaper than buying the tool. Any competent machinist can do it. Not something you'd need to drive around the world to get someone to do.

So you're saying my pipe cutter method is all bad?

 

[jeffdt]

I say day ain't nothin much left out ther in a young mans small budget to polish up but some turds.

Ahh, now I'm clear, ty. I was thinkin' maybe you had broken the seal on a mason jar of sumpin'