So I have this Brno 8x57mm and I am going to go ahead and do it the way I want it. The plan is to send it to JES and rebore it to 9.3x62mm, have the receiver and Talley rings and bases color case hardened, blue the barrel, add a lever floor plate release, 3 position safety, shorten the forend and add an ebony tip in the English style, a new red recoil pad. I have wanted to do one like this and have started a few times but ended up selling the last one. Trying to scratch off the bucket list guns

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I customized a brno mod 21 for myself, I bought the gun on AR and it was in project condition, but had a good 7x57 barrel and a bad 8x57 barrel, so I copied the stock design with a great piece of russian walnut, and built a switch barrel gun, had the old 8x57 barrel (complete wit sights and sleeve rebored to a 9.3x62...Loved it, but a fellow with more money than me had to have so away it went, leaving me with pictures...I can send pics to your email if you want, might help you design your rifle..Your on the right track a 9.3x62 really takes to that small ring action..and the specs of both my barrels were so close that the inletting fit both barrels with no modification between the two and both barrels shot to the same POI..a miracle for sure.

http://forums.accuratereloadin...1019521/m/7611014162

From your description, this level of work is more than what you're planning...but Brnos can be things of beauty!

Mark

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As a great fan of Brno, I salute you!

Please tell me you're going to keep the set triggers.

I reworked a brno myself, fun project-

Why the re-bore (unless of course it is shot out) as with the 227 grain bullet the 8x57 is very potent.

Another idea of the throat is poor is either convert it to 8x60S (I had a Mauser in that calibre and it was very very good) or the American 8mm-06?

Meantime good luck with your project.

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I reworked a brno myself, fun project-

Looks great nice work details please + thanks

Here's my Czechoslavakian Mauser in .270 WCF. Pictutred as it was when it came out of Holt's auction in England. Cost was but £60 and despite the awful previous owner's drill and tap it's nice enough as a classic iron sighted stalking rifle.



With regard to the OP's project the next lot down was this one linked below. Belgian, FN, in 9.3x62.

https://auctions.holtsauctione...o=+++51840&saletype=

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I reworked a brno myself, fun project-

Looks great nice work details please + thanks

I'll second that. Particularly like to hear about that beautiful stock.

Here's my favorite customized BRNO: a Model 21 with a new bolt handle, three position safety and bottom metal in 7X64. If Winchester had chosen to offer this caliber in the Model 70, it's likely the .270 Winchester and .280 Remington would never have seen the light of day.

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Here's my favorite customized BRNO: a Model 21 with a new bolt handle, three position safety and bottom metal in 7X64. If Winchester had chosen to offer this caliber in the Model 70, it's likely the .270 Winchester and .280 Remington would never have seen the light of day.

You're right, but it wouldn't market well in the U.S., especially back then. You know, it not bein' 'Merkin and all. They don't make money selling to our modest band of aficionados; they need to appeal to the masses of deer hunters in rural Sod Kicker Falls (insert prairie state here).

Beautiful rifle, by the way. As usual.

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I reworked a brno myself, fun project-

Looks great nice work details please + thanks

I bought a brno that had been bubba'd. Someone had apparently ground down the bolt handle with a angle grinder and added an aftermarket safety. I had the bolt handle replaced and a 3 position safety added. Bought a semi inletted blank and hogged it out, glass bedded the rifle to the templet stock and had it duplicated. The blank came from a deceased gunsmith estate for $300. I rust blued it myself. Kinda proud how it turned out.

Isn't it up for sale?

Yes it is. I bought another rifle in 9.3x62 that I have been after for a while so I no longer need this one since rechambering was the only reason I got it. It is a nice gun that I am kind of torn about selling but the 8x57mm duplicates other chamberings I have so it is not needed right now. Ah the fickleness of rifle looneys

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Yes it is. I bought another rifle in 9.3x62 that I have been after for a while so I no longer need this one since rechambering was the only reason I got it. It is a nice gun that I am kind of torn about selling but the 8x57mm duplicates other chamberings I have so it is not needed right now. Ah the fickleness of rifle looneys

Another Brno?

It may sound strange considering how much I love Brnos, Sharps rifles and all the classics but my favorite all weather hunting rifles are Steyr-Mannlicher Model M Professionals. I have had all the calibers except one and finally convinced the owner of a factory 9.3x62mm to let me buy it. It may be ugly but they shoot like crazy and that stock fits me better than any other rifle. Plus this one has a Mannlicher branded scope on it. Now I think I will search for a pristine full stock Brno in 7x57 to keep