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Lead pot
09-26-2013, 09:00 PM
Is there a place where I can get a short chambered drop in ballard rifled .38-55 barrel for a 336 Marlin?
oscarflytyer
09-26-2013, 09:39 PM
only place I know is Numrich - IF they have one. Might check over on the Marlin Owners forum. Never know what you might scare up there.

If you run into a pair, throw me a bone and let me know!
TXGunNut
09-26-2013, 09:48 PM
Sounds like an interesting project, please keep us posted.
ReloaderFred
09-26-2013, 09:58 PM
Send it to JES Reboring and have Jesse make it into a .38-55. He made mine into a .375 Winchester, and it only took him a week to get it back to me.

Here's the link: http://www.35caliber.com/index.html

Hope this helps.

Fred
TXGunNut
09-26-2013, 10:34 PM
Don't know why I didn't think of that, Fred. Just got one back from JES myself. Great work, great value, fast turnaround.
Lead pot
09-26-2013, 11:39 PM
Tnx for the help guys.
A rebore would be the easest way to go but I would like to use a little longer barrel.
I will keep the JES link.

TNX, Kurt
ReloaderFred
09-27-2013, 12:24 AM
He does great work, but I don't think he can stretch barrels............

Fred
missionary5155
09-27-2013, 08:38 AM
Greetings
Option #2 Buy another 30-30 barrel cheap(bad rifling). Remove your origonal barrel. Install bad barrel and send it to JES. On return you now have a switch barrel receiver with 2 calibers.
Mike in Peru
Lead pot
09-27-2013, 08:45 AM
Fred,

You mean he dont have a fence stretcher he can use?? :-)
KCSO
09-27-2013, 09:25 AM
I ahve to agree JES has done a couple for us and they were boght real shooters. The owners wouldn't sell them for anything.
ReloaderFred
09-27-2013, 10:28 AM
Jesse Ocumpah is a big boy, about 6'6", and he can probably stretch fences a whole bunch, but those barrels are a little tougher. It probably wouldn't come out straight, anyway.......... I am impressed with the job he did on my Marlin, by the way.

Fred
Lead pot
09-27-2013, 02:21 PM
Fred I have two Marlins one is a 30-30 and the other is a early 444 both have Micro groove rifling and shoot great with a jacket bullet but suffer with cast that I want to use for the silhouette matches.
The .38-55 would make a fine caliber for this and the .444 might be candidate for a liner back into a .444 or a rebore into a .44-70 maynard.
I have been looking for someone that does the reline or rebore job good. I have never done this so I don't know a good place to have this done.