How to Install a Short Chambered Barrel Presented by Larry Potterfield | MidwayUSA Gunsmithing

Installing a new barrel on a Remington 700 is a lot easier than it used to be. Using a pre-threaded and short chambered barrel by Shilen, this job is easily accomplished by hand using only an action wrench, barrel vise, finish reamer, T-handle, and some headspace gages. Watch along as Larry Potterfield, Founder and CEO of MidwayUSA, installs the barrel and lengthens the chamber to final dimension.
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[@not.an.operator]

Larry, you absolute legend!! Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us!

[@vonclark6344]

If I could have one wish. It would be to work for Larry for a year.

[@onsonsweemey8032]

I came for the gunsmithing but stayed for those hot African beats.

[@Jose-re2cj]

Larry ; Thank Alot for Your Information , Have a nice day.

[@lHASANl]

My Gosh, You Are the God of Gunsmithing Sir!

[@jamespugh]

Thanks Larry for that info need a refreshing on it. planning build a mauser here soon.

[@hartfordboothe7466]

Helpful video, thanks for the time and effort. I liked the music, kind of breaks up the dead air space between necessary commentary.

[@stuknoles3897]

Great video. You sure know what your doing.

[@KE0ZCO]

Larry is The Man !!

[@mikeg7909]

He makes everything easy in a few minutes LOL

[@ssimon64]

I LIKE THE MUSIC!

[@piutesteve]

Larry, In past years I have purchased several Shilen barrels from Midway and I was very happy with them. The last 2 however were horible They were so rough inside the machining marks in the bore can be seen in cell phone photographs. I am not blaming Midway (I love you guys)I know it's Shilen's problem.

[@piutesteve]

.william knox Nobody was a bigger fan of shillen than I was. I used them for 30+ years with GREAT results.The last 7 barrels changed all that. I had forgotten that I had 2 barrels on backorder from Midway. They showed up the other day and I looked them over. They looked horrible to me. When I ran a patch down the barrel I couldn't change direction. They were that rough.I returned them to Midway. I returned one barrel to Shilen from a previous build. I tried for over 400 rounds to break it in and that batch of barrels I requested and paid for extra hand lapping. I couldn't get it clean no matter what I tried. I thought it might be just a fluke so I called them to see if they could explain what happened .They won't even return my calls. I have a ton of guns out there with Shilen barrels that shoot GREAT but in the last year I have rebarreled 3 of my previous builds and have 3 more to do.

[@donaldscearce5687]

I know this is along time ago but I need help building a rifle can anybody help?

[@PQRXYZ433]

"Way back in the day..." How long have you been around, Larry, since the English Civil War?

[@rwr44857]

thanks for the vid Larry

[@Vintage-406]

Man oh man have times changed.

[@bryandastmalchi3250]

Maybe I am missing it, but where does this show the barrel and action meeting with the appropriate torque? Looks like you are just eye-balling with the final 1/8 inch adjustment?

[@209K231]

Larry, how many turns of the reamer before you should back it out and clean it and the chamber? Thanks.

[@ExperienceGrind]

All you people don't get the music is there because these vids are part of the Safari Gun build.

[@josemeny8781]

Me gustan mucho sus vídeos, aunque son muy "gráficos" lamento que no sean subtitulados. Excelente trabajo un abrazo y saludos desde Uruguay

[@RubioNegroZaravia]

+José Antonio Meny Amigo, si precisas una traduccion, no dudes en contactarme. Seria un gusto ayudarte. Saludos desde EEUU.

[@robertbrandywine]

So what holds the barrel and action together is tension on the threads?

[@spapi3880]

Wonderful information but why is the music so loud?

[@royalace2271]

I was wondering where did you learn your craft from and have you ever met Wallace Gusler?

[@aliaseldombensobarsmith4982]

I've been trying to make my own reamers , its harder then it looks

[@OpCharlieBravo]

I felt like I was in Africa watching this video. I was waiting for a lion to pop up.

[@anthonyridge2323]

That looks surprisingly easy, like too easy. Is it more work to change caliber while doing this?, or about the same amount and ease of work? Say going from .30-06 to 7mm Rem Mag or .300 Win Mag. I know the Savage 10/110 actions are easy to swap around but I always assumed the Rem 700 to be much more difficult for some reason. Is there a safety Hazzard or danger to not getting everything absolutely dead-on right when doing things?, or is the worst thing just a sloppy action or piss poor accuracy? Thanks! Btw, I LOVE these vids from Larry and Midway! 👍

[@vaneater2734]

Anthony Ridge he’s changing the depth of the chamber the caliber

[@sjeverett75]

whether or not you can just swap calibers depends on action and bolt face. example going from 308 to 243 or 270 to 30-06. first you need to make sure your current caliber and new caliber are same action then same bolt face or you will need a new one. other than that its the same since when you order the short chambered barrel you will specify the caliber you want.

[@FairlaneFox]

Okay, so when installing the barrel for the final time, do you do ANYTHING to the threads? Oil them? Grease them? Anti-sneeze them? Lock tight them!? (These are jokes) Considering i dont see anything in my searching about doing anything to them, i assume you want to install the threads “dry” with nothing on them, and that “extra 1/8th turn” is the final torque factor. Very simple info i cant seem to find online at all. I know i may not get an answer, but its something im trying to figure out for reinstalling my winchester 1906 pump .22 rifle barrel. (Barrel was crooked, and is also shot out. But figured id get it back on straight till im ready to put on either a new barrel and sleeve the current one.)

[@dinkledord7026]

At 2:15 he greases the threads on the barrel

[@harryking7255]

What you do if you cut too far with the chamber reamer, machine off a few hundredths off the shank and a matching amount on the shoulder?

[@zis4zombies644]

Bingo, avoid doing so if you don't have a lathe

[@braxtonexkman2410]

Were can you get a cheap bolt achion.

[@davidbrunner4413]

Remington 783 is an affordable option retailing as low as $300

[@sebastiantufigno8529]

Does the chamber of a 12 gauge semi automatic shotgun comes off the barrel by unscrewing like you do here??????

[@fullstrutn]

no they off by removing the bolt ''handle'' then slowly let the bolt forward the barrel bolt and all will come off.

[@johngnipper1454]

Larry do you have a CD of that background music? Id like to try my rifle out on it!

[@beachboardfan9544]

Is this a normal thing, why would you wind up with a short chamber in the first place?

[@mannequinfukr]

I see the comment is 5 years old but I'm pretty sure the short chamber is to prevent excessive headspace on a rifle where it would be probably perfect on one rifle

[@ericjohnson8482]

Also never ever turn a reamer backwards.

[@dantheman7624]

you dont want to test fire until after you hot blue becuse copper fowling in the barrel will ruin the batch of hot blue.

[@ssimon64]

They're not gonna blue the inside of the barrel 🤦‍♂️

[@GFWoodchuck]

How do you prevent the reamer from going in crooked?

[@austinblackman1359]

For lathes; The barrel is secured in a fixture and then placed in a lathe. The fixture has 8 bolts, 2 on each side. the barrel protrudes and thousands micrometers are uses to level it out within one thousands of an inch. Then, it's repeated with ten thousand micrometers. The reamer is then secured in a floating bit. Hand reaming; the reamer is attached to a rod, brass brushings are used to keep it center. It won't be as center or as precision as a lathe, and more time consuming but it's still good work.

[@kassilewis5511]

"Indicators" not "micrometers".😉 And there are 4 screws on my outboard spider and 4 on my inboard spider(or 4 jaws) but i have used a cathead in the steady as well as an extended cathead in the 4 jaw to dial in really short barrels that wont reach through the headstock.

[@GFWoodchuck]

​@@kassilewis5511 You responded to comment and I didn't even remember the video. Then I realize I asked my question 9 years ago. Lol

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[@birdrs]

Good info, but God, that flute music really starts to grate after a bit.

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[@edwinmarinsuarezvillarroel9191]

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[@familyman1110]

Really great vid really bad music ty

[@inaourapac]

Pls turn of the music... Thx for a good tube anyhow

[@bobbyw9046]

Larry, the videos are great but the MUSIC has to go!

[@chriswoods3188]

why short chamber a rifle??

[@aaronschneider3136]

chris woods so you can finish cutting the chamber so it doesn't have excessive headspace.

[@thebizkit79]

Will you please mute that tribal dancing music in the background.

[@ssimon64]

Chut up! I like that music!

[@gregorydelvalle7740]

Soooooo if you happen to ream too much I guess you hack saw the threads to shorten the barrel chamber until your “no-go” gauge works huh...🤣

[@rjt5001]

I can barely stand listening to the relentless, jungle book music... make it stop!!!!

[@p0k7lm]

why is the suttle back ground " music " sound like chinese ? why, why ? riuns video .

[@TheClampetts]

Another video with that extremely annoying background music? WTF are you thinking? And it gets more annoying every time I watch this otherwise-good video.

[@mikeg7909]

He doesn't reply to anybody's questions

[@akmalzawawi1020]

Jos

[@juliusjames5577]

Music unnecessary

[@archangel20031]

He still has that crappy jungle tunes drowning out what he is trying to say? The problem is none of his employees have the balls to tel him the truth!