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Default OT Remington model 511 .22 bolt action

On Sat, 1 Apr 2017 09:42:31 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

On Saturday, April 1, 2017 at 12:26:02 PM UTC-4, wrote:
On Sat, 1 Apr 2017 04:55:36 -0700 (PDT), "
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On Friday, March 31, 2017 at 8:21:55 PM UTC-4, Bob La Londe wrote:


If I had had a good look at the inside of the barrel. I might have passed
on it. It had what was possibly grease in the barrel, but after I ran a
couple of swabs thru it, it looked good.


Dan

Even if its shot out relining a .22 is not beyond the reach of the home shop
gunsmith.

I am glad I do not need to reline it. But I would like to know whele one can buy stock to use in relining. I have thought about building a CO2 rifle. I probably will never do it, but it is something I think about.

Dan

Brownells sells barrel liners. I put one in an old rifle a year or two
ago. The process is simple. The hardest part is drilling out the
barrel for the liner. But any competent metalworker can do it. Full
instructions available online at Brownells web site.
Eric


And how well does it shoot with the new liner?

Quite well. It took about 50 rounds or so for the rifle to settle down
to consistent groups. I think part of that was me getting used to the
rifle because it had never shot well since the day I bought it. It's a
Remington model 6 and had seen a lot of abuse before I bought it. I
had to to rechamber it as well as machining the breech face and
recrowning the barrel. I also had to move the barrel back .010 after
machining the breech face so that the rolling block would meet the
breech face exactly parallel. It's really a rifle made for a child and
I am only shooting sub sonic and CB shorts. The rifling was so damaged
at the muzzle end that the bullets would tumble upon leaving the
barrel. Targets would show the profile of the bullets as they passed
through at various angles, some almost vertical. The new liner has now
made the rifle really fun to shoot.
Eric