How much do you think the average cost to put on a new barrel would be? Including all the extras.

There is no average. Barrel and labor prices are all over the place. Also, different costs for stainless vs CM because it doesn't need blueing after installation.

Do you want sights put back on? original factory or replacement aftermarket sights? Also, there are labor variations for different action types.

All that said, a blued plain repalcement barrel no sights, chambered & crowned on a Mauser or Remington type action runs $500 -$600 with a top end barrel; maybe 1/2 that on the other end of the scale.

price quoted yesterday for a rem/sav action timming and trued was $150
Barrel chambered $300
his turn around quoted less than two weeks.

I was thinking of going with a shilen, or hart barrel and getting a gunsmith to put it on for me. Is that better than getting shilen or hart to do the work? I was going to go with a stainless tube.

I paid about $280 for my last SS Kreiger and $150 for chamber,thread, crown and install.

Brownells catalog lists responses to shop price questions. They list a range of 150 to 250 for threading and chambering a barrel to an action. Add the price of the barrel to those figures.

Where is the best place to get a barrel? Is the company the only place to get one, or are there aftermarket places?

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Originally posted by Croberts:
Where is the best place to get a barrel? Is the company the only place to get one, or are there aftermarket places?

My experience has been that aftermarket barrels are higher quality.
Some of ther better ones are:

Lothar Walther
Krieger
Douglas
Shilen
Hart

Give this guy a call. Your time will not be wasted.
Be ready to talk for a while.
Kevin Rayhill
308-432-5114
Nebraska

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Originally posted by tiggertate:
There is no average. Barrel and labor prices are all over the place. Also, different costs for stainless vs CM because it doesn't need blueing after installation.

Do you want sights put back on? original factory or replacement aftermarket sights? Also, there are labor variations for different action types.

All that said, a blued plain repalcement barrel no sights, chambered & crowned on a Mauser or Remington type action runs $500 -$600 with a top end barrel; maybe 1/2 that on the other end of the scale.

I'd agree here.....don't forget that a CM barrel needs to be blued.........

Most replacement barrels are Abbott and Bennett or Shaw or other lesser cost barrel.

Still the typical rebarreling will run about #350 even for a cheap barrel.

Often times one is better off trading the gun for a new one VS rebarreling the old one.

Go check out www.accuracyarms.com. Kim has as good a price on Shilens as anybody and he is great to deal with.
Butch

Also check out www.pac-nor.com. They've done good work for me.

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Originally posted by Leo L.:
Also check out www.pac-nor.com. They've done good work for me.

Yup! How did I forget them?

A couple months ago Randy Weaver quoted me $540 any barrel I wanted finished on my action. Two months time.

In '99 I bought a A&B blank from Midway for $70, had my local 'smith do the work, except had it Cryro treated another buddy insisted on for $40 more. Seems to me the whole gun project cost $430.

New stock from my dead cherry tree, new barrel, and it shot one hole all day no matter how many shots fired.

"Shoots like a House afire" Steve Hugel told me. What ever that means, I have no idea. Steve had no further explanation, jsut kept repeating the same thing. He's a varmint hunter writer I was hunting coyotes with at the time.

I'm well pleased with the A&B and for sure the total cost. My local man told me not to name him along with the price. From that, I'm sure he gave me a big break on it as he does all my gun work.

George