Hi guys...who would you trust to rebore your pet rifle. Searching the posts Cliff from LaBounty's rings a few times as well as Dan Pederson from Cutrifle. Who would you trust with your pride and joy?

I am considerting having my 460 custom rebored and rechambered to 510 A-square....probably a project for next fall as I have too many irons in the fire now. I understand that Clearwater Reboring, search deltagunshop.com, also does a good job, but have never had a chance to look at either company's work close up.
If you do decide to get a rifle rebored, please post good and bad on this forum to share with those others of us who are thinking of doing the same. Thanks!

Danny Peterson has done a couple of my rifles and will be called upon to do more in the future. His work is top drawer.
Norm Johnson, from High Plains re-boring, has done one for me but I havn't had it long enough to really judge how well it shoots with various loads. So far though it look good.

Jim Kobe of Bloominton, Minnesota. PM me if you need his contact information.

He has been involved in the last couple of Guild rifle builds.

Charles Behnke over in Oregon.

Rich
DRSS

i've used labounty to do a remington 760 from 308 to 358. it turned out real good.

LaBounty quit the business and turned it over to Clearwater....I believe that the person who runs Clearwater trained under LaBounty.

f224-

I am interested to find out more about your post.

Jim Kobe is not in the Guild, and only Guild Regular Memebers can work on any project rifles. Furthermore, by the rules set forth by the Guild, Regular Members can only work on one raffle rifle. This is to give others a chance to work on the projects from year to year.

Can you please elaborate on where you got your information, and what exactly was told to you.

Thanks.


BTW-it is Jim Dubell who bought out Labounty and runs the reboring operation now. He IS a Regular Memeber of the Guild, and he also did the metal work for this year's raffle project.

fordnutter,

Unless that barrel is special in some way (e.g., integral rib), I would re-barrel, not re-bore.

There is no economy in reboring these days, and since there are only a couple of shops currently in that business, the wait times can be long.

George

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Originally posted by fordnutter:
Hi guys...who would you trust to rebore your pet rifle. Searching the posts Cliff from LaBounty's rings a few times as well as Dan Pederson from Cutrifle. Who would you trust with your pride and joy?

I may be wrong, but I believe Dan Pederson is the heir and successor to the old A&M Rifle Company of Prescott, AZ. If so, I would certainly trust him, as that old outfit did great work on the M71 and 1886 Winchesters I had rebored to .450 Alaskan and .45/70 respectively.

For a .500a2 I'd be pretty leary of reboring period. Make darn sure you have enough barrel metal left under any screw holes and at the muzzel after reboring. For the cost of a new barrel and chamber at Pac-Nor you may not be time and money ahead with a rebore anyway. As George said unless your trying to save a barrel with a milled- in integral rib, why bother?-Rob

RobGB....I am assuming that this is directed towards me and I really appreciate it. The rifle has a no taper from the front of the action for about 3-4". then a straght taper to a muzzle diameter of, I think, might have to measure it again, .800-.850...It also has a combination rear sight island/recoil lug, barrel band swivel and barrel band front sight. The stock was done by George Hoenig, barreling and action work by McGowan and the sights, swivel were done by Ellis Brown, the same who wrote the book on building double rifles from shotgun actions.
There are no screw holes...I thought that one out in advance since even before this rifle was built I was looking to do a .500 something or other. Again, I really appreciate your pointing these things out to me, and am by no means arguing with you. If you see a further problem that might crop up, please let me know.
I checked into a rebarrel to match the original contour, taking off and remounting the sights and swivel and I got a quote of close to $600. I checked into reboring and found that rebored, rechambered would run about 1/2 of that amount.
Thanks again!

Thanks for all the replies. The rifle is a Ruger RSM with the integrel quarter rib so hence wanted rebore not rebarrel. Just measured the muzzle diameter at .750" so not sure if it would be safe to bore the 375HH barrel to something like 510 cal. Would really love a 50 cal on that rifle. I see Dan peterson has a 510 wells reamer, i gather this is very similar to the 500A2. Just dreaming at this stage. A 505 Gibbs would be neat but sounds like the bolt would end up with next to no face. Just sent Dan an email asking what to expect with a rebore on the Ruger barrel.

an rsm is thick enough.. barely, for a .510...

it will be a touch light, but my bauska barrel for .510 is to be 790 at 23"

jeffe

Congomike- Thanks for the clarification and I just wanted to make sure you had all the data needed to make a safe decision. Glad you have no screw holes as I've seen more than one barrel peal open after a rebore when the screw depth was not considered. I personally like to have at least 0.125 inches at the muzzel. Personally, I have had mixed results with rebores and since I do my own work its easier and faster to rebarrel. I'd stick with a .500a2 reamer as its a more commonly recognized cartridge than the Wells. Make sure its throated for Military AP .50BMG bullets as these guns are a blast to shoot with them. I have a .500a2 so I actually have some relevant experience.-Rob