Comments on: How NOT to Headspace a Barrel — Speedy’s Disturbing Discovery

By: lm custom

lm custom — Sat, 17 Mar 2018 17:38:30 +0000

Hello everyone
sorry for my English
I already had this problem on my rifle is the same brand made in France, with a head space of 8/10 mm

By: Maddox

Maddox — Fri, 09 Mar 2018 22:16:53 +0000

I got one of those actions imported from the very same gunsmith in Europe. Very few were made and the workmanship was excellent and I tend to agree with David Joe: The original customer must have tried to tamper with the original headspace on the shoulder of the barrel and made a mess. I don’t believe for a minute that the rifle was proofed with a defective headspace by a government board.

By: Pat B

Pat B — Fri, 09 Mar 2018 14:47:34 +0000

So with 18tpi shouldn’t the barrel advance .055 in one complete revolution?

By: Link

Link — Fri, 09 Mar 2018 14:24:33 +0000

What color is locktite after extreme heating and broken free ?

By: Richard

Richard — Fri, 09 Mar 2018 12:08:25 +0000

That does not look like Red Locktite.

By: Banian

Banian — Fri, 09 Mar 2018 11:01:46 +0000

It’s easily to recognize a French action from Salva. Many friends of mine have got issue with this kind of gunsmith…unfortunately

By: David Lawson

David Lawson — Fri, 09 Mar 2018 03:58:27 +0000

A little bit of knowledge will take you a very short way.

By: Sams

Sams — Fri, 09 Mar 2018 01:52:33 +0000

That looks like pipe dope.

By: David Joe

David Joe — Thu, 08 Mar 2018 22:34:03 +0000

I have another theory. If you have been at this game for many years, you may very well have hundreds or even thousands of pieces of brass that you would like to use, from a number of different barrels, reamers and actions, but your bolt won’t close on them. I’d be curious if that chamber actually measured longer than spec, and if so, I’d suspect that the gunsmith in question declined the offer to make a “universal” deeper chamber, and this was actually a customer invented workaround. After all, who wouldn’t notice that?

By: watercam

watercam — Thu, 08 Mar 2018 18:05:54 +0000

Certainly NOT saying every Army Armorer would do that. Just saying there is at least one who is or was.