Got this question today from a friend and I don't know the answer. He is thinking about re-chambering a .40-65 to .40-70 SBn. I assume it is not as simple as running a .40-70 SBn chamber reamer into the .40-65 chamber? My guess is the barrel would have to be set back at least a couple of threads? And then another thing that occurred to me is that it might actually be cheaper just to rebarrel the rifle with the desired chamber. It is an Uberti High Wall that has seen some hard use and it appears the chamber is damaged according to my friend. I don't know exactly what he means by damage although he said something about a flat spot that causes the cases not to eject so I assume he did a chamber cast to find that.
What would be the best recommendation to give him? Thanks