I have a barrel that was taken off of an FN large ring mauser action. I am wondering what other actions (if any) the barrel shank could be rethreaded / modified to fit.

Well, not much. The single depth of 12 TPI 55 degree Whitworth is 0.0534 inch with a double depth of 0.107 so after you strip the threads you have a .993 shank. Small ring Mauser for sure and probably some of the tiny Sakos and BRNOs. If it has a long chamber area it's possible that the thread extension could be cut off and re-threaded to something else. Take off barrels are generally a bad bet anyway unless you know it shot well when you took it off. Most barrels are taken off for one of two reasons. They don't shoot well, or they don't shoot well.

Three reasons: dont' shoot well, don't shoot well, want other cartridge.

Most rifles I rebarrel shoot fine, but aren't the right cartridge for the owner (usually me).

Speer covers the initial question. Just not a lot of actions with tenon dimensions much less than an inch.

Jeremy

They do make good tent stakes, especially Rem 700 barrels and Mauser military barrels. I have literally, half a ton of them. I have also used them for concrete re-bar.

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They do make good tent stakes, especially Rem 700 barrels and Mauser military barrels. I have literally, half a ton of them. I have also used them for concrete re-bar.

I found one very good for extending the leverage of a socket-head tap spanner.

No need to go to 'Vegas and pay cover for a floor show- there are plenty of comedians right here.

I also use an M1 barrel for a cheater bar on my action wrench, and I keep an old Krag barrel in the garage for a pry bar.
Yes, better than a comedy club as the admission is free and the jokes and just as lame. (But my comments aren't jokes; they are real life.)

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(But my comments aren't jokes; they are real life.)

Yes, but your recommendations are VERY poor at times Tom. For example: "Old Mauser barrels are a crappy replacement for re-bar. Because the barrels are tapered and they are not rippled and the Mauser reinforcement bars will simply pull right out if your concrete block cracks!" Unless of course you alternate, chamber up, chamber down and angle them. But try to explain that to the county bridge building crew or the Army Corps of Engineers ! he he he

I used them in the centers of cinder blocks filled with concrete so they aren't subject to pulling. So there.

This is why neither of you are in the concrete business.

And not much of any other business either.

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I used them in the centers of cinder blocks filled with concrete so they aren't subject to pulling. So there.

So I take it the trend of using the bodies of Teamsters Union Leaders for that sort of material has kind of fallen out of fancy in the USA over the last few years ? What with the mummifying and the air pockets and structural trouble and such? The engineers just couldn't wrap their heads around that problem, huh?

I bet if Hillary Clinton had of been nicer to him, Vladimir Putin would have shared how his engineer's got around that problem!

guys - please send some of your suggestions to biebs for blaser use

They still do that in Chicago only they put your feet in a bucket of cement and take you out on Lake Michigan. One way trip.