On Sat, 1 Apr 2017 13:39:22 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

On Saturday, April 1, 2017 at 4:13:57 PM UTC-4, wrote:
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

That's interesting. I once had an ex-Army Remington .22 training rifle. I re-crowned it but getting past the erosion near the muzzle would have required cutting it back too much.

I considered re-lining the barrel but then a guy who is a nut for anything ex-military made me an offer I couldn't refuse.
I had been considering the barrel liner for a while and then
serendipity made the decision for me. A guy who lives close by had an
old .22 rifle that neede a liner so he bought the liner and the
special piloted drill required for drilling the barrel to accept the
liner. I hadn't decided to buy the liner because I wanted to make my
own piloted D bit if I was going to do the job. Well, the guy who
bought the drill realized that he couldn't do the drilling himself
because of physical limitations. He asked me how much to do the job
and once I realized what he wanted done I offered to do the job for
free if I could then use his drill on my rifle. So we made the deal
and his rifle shoots very well now as does mine.
Eric