Thanks for your collective insights. As I mentioned, I am not a gunsmith – kindly excuse my inappropriate use/choice of terminology: re-bore, re-line, etc. However, it seems most everyone understood the general nature of my question.
The thought process behind the question involved a very nice, sentimentally-valuable 7.65mm luger with a relatively worn-out barrel bore. In the interest of keeping the gun’s components as original to each other as possible while updating it to shoot the more economical 9x19mm luger cartridge, I was inquiring whether the 7.65mm barrel had enough “meat” on it to undergo the process. The car buffs in the group might appreciate the analogous comparison to the rebuilding of an original numbers matching engine (e.g., barrel) with worn cylinders (e.g., bore) rather than installing a completely different engine (e.g., replacement barrel) into a classic car (e.g., luger). This does not touch upon the obvious added differences in bluing and patina one would encounter with a mis-matched or replacement barrel.
Judging from the collective replies, it sounds as though this may be a possibility in the right hands. Does anyone know of a particularly competent gunsmith who would be skilled/experienced at such an undertaking? Thanks again for the collective insights.
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