Do they still have the Irish sweepstakes? I'm feeling lucky.
I pulled the barrel from a k98 mauser a bit a go. Here is the thread about it http://www.wilderness-survival.net/f...he-games-begin
Anyhoo I modified my action wrench and made up some new barrel blocks from beech. I'll apologize now to the purists, I don't know the latin name for this particular beech tree. I'm in northern michigan so take a wild azz guess and you'll be close enough. I then degreased the barrel where it sits in the beech blocks, I used starting fluid for this. Tightened the barrel vise down. Put the action wrench on it and gave it a little "snap" and the barrel popped loose. I was really sweating this, I feel lucky. To be fair This action and barrel was upright in the basement stairway and every now and then I would give it a squirt of kroil, right where the action and barrel meet up. This went on for a few weeks.
Now to step two, pulling the rear sight base from the old barrel. It has a small screw and is soldered on. This could be a PIA because I want to reuse it.
One more thing I couldn't find my powdered rosin, really wanted to sprinkle a bit on the barrel and blocks.
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