I’ve glued the Redman liner into my Stevens model 44 barrel w/loctite 262 and have faced it off to 90 degrees at both breech and muzzle and crowned it using my Brownells 11 degree piloted tool.
So, now my buddy is telling me that it’s almost impossible to hand cut a 22LR chamber and do a good job. What say you?
I could also take it to another buddy’s house and get it centered on the bore by putting a pin in the bore and indicating it then turn the lathe chuck by hand to ream the chamber. He’s telling me that is no good either and to take it to a pro.
What I have is a removable pilot reamer and some headspace gauges. I had figured on turning the reamer with a tap handle, going slow and using lots of cutting oil, but now I’m reluctant to do anything until I get some good advice.
I’ve got John Taylor making a 17 HMR barrel for it and thought that it would be fun to see what I could do with the bad 22 LR barrel on my own. I’d like it to shoot real well and it will be three or four months before I get the action home, so I have plenty of time to decide how I will proceed.
It wouldn’t be a big deal to have someone else do the chambering, but I’d sure like to do it myself if I have a reasonable expectation of being able to do a good job on it.