"Recutting" OEM barrels?
Search is your friend ;-)
bad_man_one has a few threads cooking on this topic.
The short answer is yes.
Stu,
Not to offend you, but people who say "search is your friend" tend NOT to have tried to search for a very specific topic.
It might put you in the vicinity -- but it tends to be a "vicinity" where you'd already covered ground.
(To switch analogies, I was already "in town," but was asking for specific directions to a street intersection that wasn't readily apparent on the map...and was told to use a map...)
In other words, with "search," it's next to impossible to find something this specific with any degree of efficiency -- and I'm a big fan of efficiency.
In short, I'm asking the question BECAUSE I'm aware of BM!'s work.
It was unclear whether by "conversion" barrel, it meant he was cutting new barrels that "convert" one caliber to another -- or whether he was "recutting" existing barrels and thus "converting" the calibers.
I'm not a machinist -- and didn't see the answer jumping out at me from having scanned the threads.
It's simply easier to ask a straight-forward, specific question -- on a distinct, separate thread.
If he's "recutting" existing OEM barrels -- and they're working -- then it'd behoove us to pick up spare barrels where appropriate -- if we're interested in having him do this work -- either now or later. Thus, if he's doing this on an on-going basis, we'd have the spare barrel for him to "recut" -- in case Smith stocks ever ran out.
BUT...
If he's machining barrels from blanks -- and he has a limited supply, then it's a different story altogether...In other words, buy now -- because there might not be any later...
