'Evening,
I bought a few M48 bbls recently, and was considering mounting one to my shot out M48 project. I did some research, and nearly every forum post I found on the web about hand head spacing invariably devolved to a discussion about why the OP needs to just "buy a lathe" or "take it to a GS". By definition, I'm a poor armorer who does minor gunsmithing, so neither of those two suggestions are neither helpful or possible. My question is, is it practical to finish headspace one of these bbls (chamber is already cut and the bbl threaded) by hand?
In the future I will invest in a lathe to expand my part time FFL business, but for now, I'm only interested in doing it by hand. Thanks.