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Originally Posted by XTR
I know that to chamber and mount/headspace a blank on a Remington 700 is $125 to about $250 depending on who and where.
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A rifle barrel is a whole different story. You need a lathe with a bed long enough to take the barrel and the tailstock, plus the reamer and a reamer extension. Some lathes are big enough to let the barrel fit inside the headstock spindle, but those are big bucks lathes.
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Those blanks have to be threaded to fit the action.
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Pretty much all blanks have to be threaded. Only exceptions I can think of offhand are .22 barrels and the AK style of barrel, which is pressed in the trunnion. I used a 20 ton hydraulic press on the last AK I built. It was still kind of hairy, watching the dial keep going up and up into the teens and the barrel stub not moving...
It finally gave with a 'bang' and we all jumped a foot in the air...
