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Originally Posted by Jebus35745
Glad to see this post. Bought pre-17 with a bulged bbl and wanted to make a 3" field gun out of it to carry hunting small game. Got a 4" model 53 barrel off Ebay. Since it has the barrel shroud, if I cut it to 3 1/2" it would look like a mini 27. Glad Big Cholla gave the bore diameter of the 53 barrels and said it would shoot OK. It's stamped 22 mag but the bore is smaller than the regular.22 mag barrels. On with the project, Larry
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Please give us a detailed write-up on this project. I'm very interested. I think that you are going to be very pleased with the results.
And, if anyone else has a spare M 53 barrel, please consider offering it to me. You do realize that because the M 53 cylinder is longer than the standard length of a "K" cylinder that to use this barrel with a "K" cylinder it will have to be set back a turn or two. No real big deal for the competent pistolsmith, but still a consideration. ....