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Hello all.
I've put this here because it's 'building double rifles AND gunsmithing' not just DR'S
I've got a couple of rebarrelling projects that I've started, in part to practice techniques for when I build a double rifle on a shotgun action. Maybe more than one...

I'm a Kiwi, and while our laws were, sadly, changed after the christchurch shooting, we are still allowed to do our own gunsmithing- we can't do it without a dealers endorsement "as a service or as a product intended for sale" were the words of the arms officer, but diy on your own stuff is still OK.

I have a Boxford CUD lathe (think southbend 9" they're related, many parts interchange) and a round column mill. Machining is a hobby, my day job is as a light fabrication tradesman.

So. My first projects are barrels for a H&R Handi Rifle, a Rossi 20ga and a Rossi 22/410 combo.
The H&R is a youth frame in 243... that someone's cut down to 17". 243 really needs a long tube. I'm going to rebarrel it back up to 22" with an ex target rifle 6mmBR barrel. It's in good nick inside.
2nd barrel for the H&R will be a .30-30 made from a SAKO 300WM takeoff. It's burnt out at the throat but I'll be reaming that out. I may sleeve the chamber to get more usable length out of it
3rd will be a 22lr and 4th will be a 20ga, to make it a one gun armoury
The Rossi 20ga is a parts gun... someone's tried 'gunsmithing' on the barrel lug and stuffed it.
They're a common frame gun, same receiver on rifles and shotguns. So...
I plan to build a 25-06 barrel for it- I have a SAKO takeoff in pretty good condition
Second barrel will be a 30-30 built on a mint bsa 308 barrel. Again I may sleeve the chamber.
3rd will be putting a new lug on the 20ga barrel, 4th will be 22lr.
And finally the Rossi 22/410.
I plan to build a barrel for it in 32-20. I have an old 303 barrel that will do for this, and it'll be interesting to build a D-flute reamer to for it.

A note on sleeving chambers. SAKO did it between the world wars to some tens of thousands of Mosins that they bought from Austria, where they'd been rechambered to 8x50r Mannlicher.
If it's safe for them to be sleeved for as high pressure a round as 7.62x54r, then I'm sure that a relatively moderate pressure round such as 30-30 can be safely sleeved for, with due attention to detail of course.

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