I bought a .22 barrel liner and installed it in the rifle. I did a trade with guy who had the special drill for the barrel liners from Brownells. I drilled a rifle for him and since he had the chamber reamer and head space gauge he chambered my rifle. I got the barrel back today and the chamber is about .002" over what the original chamber was. The original shot out chamber measured .228 and the new chamber is .230. The rifle seems to shoot OK but I have not yet installed the new sights and am not sure. The rifle is a Remington model 6 and is one of the earliest ones so it is about 100 years old, if that makes any difference. I assume that the rounds the rifle was designed for probably used black powder instead of smokeless, so maybe that is way the chamber is smaller than the new reamed one. However, I think it is too big and the dimensions I have found online agree with me. I do not want to remove the new liner and start over again and I cannot ask the guy who chambered it for me to buy me a new liner. So I am thinking about using electroless nickel plating to shrink the chamber. I could pretty easily devise and build a contraption that would slowly raise the barrel out of the plating solution so that the plating would taper to the full thickness, so that the plating would be full thickness for about the length of a long rifle case and then taper off where the chamber start to neck down. Or I could just stick the barrel in the solution to the proper depth and plate it the proper thickness and end up with an abrupt edge where the plating ends. This edge would be about .0015 high. Any thoughts? Thanks, Eric
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8 years ago