I want to buy a 338-06 reamer. PM me if you have one.

Guess that means I'll be sending you a Winchester soon...

Are you going to buy me a reamer?

The great dilemma.


Switch out the pilot. Punch it out to 30-06, 270 or 25-06. Then run a neck & throat reamer into it.

OR ! ! ! ! !


Buy a 338-06 reamer, use it once, frame it, hang it at your service counter and use it as a reminder to ALWAYS make customers buy wildcat reamers !

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Yep; thought of that, but necker/throaters cost the same as a whole reamer.
I will make Blue pay for it. Just got to convince him.

I think you're reading upside down... you buy reamer I send Winchester. Sheesh. Some people...

I think he wants to give you some kind of Winchester as payment for the reamer Tom. Better make sure it's a PRETTY Winchester!

If all it takes to qualify is a .338-06 reamer, I'm in. I've got a reamer marked ".338-06 match". PM me and I'll send you my address for shipping me the winchester. Please make it a decent condition, pre-64. I've got a project in mind for one.

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Originally posted by ssdave:
If all it takes to qualify is a .338-06 reamer, I'm in. I've got a reamer marked ".338-06 match". PM me and I'll send you my address for shipping me the winchester. Please make it a decent condition, pre-64. I've got a project in mind for one.

Just so yah knows. Be very careful about any reamers which are marked: " M A T C H "

It's a top secret code word used by reamer makers. It means: "The customer had me make the neck so tight that it's gasping for oxygen. Or the throat is so short that it chokes on Aspirin!" In a nut shell it means that the reamer doesn't MATCH the standard drawings. Be veddy veddy careful.

OK, so I made that up. But that's still what it means. It's not going to be a garden variety 338-06. Something in the dimensions has been fucked up and dicked with. I've been down that road before and had to do a couple of jobs twice for this very reason.

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Originally posted by speerchucker30x378:

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Originally posted by ssdave:
If all it takes to qualify is a .338-06 reamer, I'm in. I've got a reamer marked ".338-06 match". PM me and I'll send you my address for shipping me the winchester. Please make it a decent condition, pre-64. I've got a project in mind for one.

Just so yah knows. Be very careful about any reamers which are marked: " M A T C H "

It's a top secret code word used by reamer makers. It means: "The customer had me make the neck so tight that it's gasping for oxygen. Or the throat is so short that it chokes on Aspirin!" In a nut shell it means that the reamer doesn't MATCH the standard drawings. Be veddy veddy careful.

OK, so I made that up. But that's still what it means. It's not going to be a garden variety 338-06. Something in the dimensions has been fucked up and dicked with. I've been down that road before and had to do a couple of jobs twice for this very reason.

Yep.

Unless a gent has the drawing for that "Match" reamer best not mess with it.

I actually have a standard 338-06 piloted PTG reamer but I do not want to part with it yet. Just one more project in mind.

Just one more project? Famous last works of the gun enthusiast.

PM sent..

Forget trying to mic a reamer because the flutes are staggered to break chatter. The simple way to do it? The reamer is held between centers in the lathe and a 1/10th indicator is touched up to the pilot (which is a known diameter) and zeroed. The diameter of the pilot is then placed into the DRO. After that the indicator is touched up to any point on the reamer and re-zeroed using the X axis and the diameter is read off of the DRO.

The shoulder and body angle can be found by rotating the compound until the indicator will run along it's length without changing and the angle read off the compound. (or you can lay a machinist protractor along the compound if you want to split hairs) The only Z axis measurement that is critical is the neck length. That can be measured accurately enough with a common vernier for gubberment work. Bear in mind that the neck on most reamers is automatically made .015 to .020 inch to long to account for case stretching.

Thanks for all the advice. I will take it under advisement.
You know what that means in "corporate speak".

I believe I have a .338 N&T reamer along with the 338-06 reamer.

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Originally posted by dpcd:
Thanks for all the advice. I will take it under advisement.
You know what that means in "corporate speak".

I think it means: "I bought the pizza the last time?"

I have a 338 neck & throat. But I aintent sending fawk all over that border until Trump promises to shelve ITAR and all of that gun related import export BS. Every time I try, someone at the BATF gets a new thingamabob !

I took the easy way out on the match reamer measurement. I chucked a barrel in the lathe, centered it, threaded it for a mauser, ran the reamer in, headspaced it, and threaded it into the mauser. Fire formed a case in it, and checked to make sure a bullet would release. Good to go, so fired some real ammo in it. Works fine.

Used it to make a .338-405 winchester also. Just ran it in extra deep until it headspaced correctly. It's a bit longer than a .30-06, and about 10% more case capacity. Good way to make a .338 rifle on a single shot that needs a rim. Just size the brass down in the .338-06 die. I might have done an intermediate step in using the 375 JDJ die first.

After I proved it on my own rifle, I used the reamer a couple of times for customer rifles.

Can't remember where I got that reamer, but it's been a wildcat that's been worth owning.