New .30 barrel...

[PRD1]

Thanks for your responses!
Don: I might get up to GT's door, sometime, but he lives about 300 miles away (I'm down in the SE corner of the state, in Sierra Vista, just up the road a piece from Tombstone - 'The Town too Touristy to Die").
GT: I will e-mail you about the project. I was hoping someone could answer my question about the interchangeability of the available new-production .30 barrels from SARCO. My concerns with used barrels are bore condition and the headspace issue - a new barrel, presumably short-chambered, would be reamed to correct headspace in installation, while a used barrel might be something of a crapshoot in that regard, especially in such a post-WW1 "Made in Germany" former Artillery. My components search is for bullets only: I have more than 600 rounds of new W-W .30 Luger ammo, about 100 fired cases and 500 new Starline cases, but less than 500 Lapua bullets. The W-W ammo is just too ghastly expensive to shoot on a regular basis, and though good ammo is available from PPU and Fiocchi at more reasonable prices, I'd prefer to load it myself.

Thanks again;

PRD-1 - mhb - MIke