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Drop in or pre fit barrel for cz 527? - SDguy - 06-13-2020
Hello: I have a 6ARC or 6 Grendel / 6 ppc / 6AR barrel itch I am looking to scratch in i bolt action rifle way. Think the sensible side of me says just wait til this fall when Howa and a few others are offering the 6ARC in their Mini Action.
Well back when 6.5 Grendel was coming out san outfit that went by CSS had Other Walther make up a good number of barrels chambered in one of the 6.5 Grendel variations, 6.5LBC may be correct. Well they shut down for reasons that had nothing to do with a poor service in any way the owner just had bigger and better things to do with his resources that BTW carried less risk. Any way I came across one of the last barrels on Ebay that was not used in that operation.
To my surprise the original barrel was very difficult to remove from the 7.62 x 39 rifle. And a bigger surprise to me was that When I threaded on the new 6.5 barrel the headspace came out perfect with no additional fitting. This is a 1 in 9 twist and she shoots as well or better than a factory 6.5 Grendel I picked up a few years later. Well now I am considering a similar project in 6 ARC. Any recommendations on a barrel mfg or source? Many Ill have to wait for the 6ARC forum.
Note: this one I would really like to do suppressed. Thinking on a 18" sporter contour that is flared out at the muzzle to be threaded and offer a substantial shoulder for a can to thread up to. See CZ and others are offering similar options in 7.62 x 39 & 300 blackout rifles for a few years now. Only thing is I am hoping for a 6 ARC barrel only to be swapped out on a 6.5 Grendel or 7.62 x 39 action. Any preferred barrel makers out there that may be somewhat reasonable in filling this bill perhaps doing better if I were to purchase a bit of a volume run. I am confident I am not the only one wishing to scratch this itch.
Drop in or pre fit barrel for cz 527? - hill37 - 06-13-2020
Preferred Barrel Blanks Does a Savage type Howa Mini barrel and I think they have a 6mmArc reamer.https://preferredbarrelblanks.com/
Drop in or pre fit barrel for cz 527? - SDguy - 06-13-2020
Thank you! That is a start, never heard of them before. and while they do offer pre-fit barrels seems they chose to shy away from CZ for one reason or another. Then they seem to me in the majority choosing to bypass service for the CZ 527. When I delved into the CSS 6.5 Grendel project I to was a bit uncomfortable with CZ's choice to shoulder off the inner face of the action threads. To my knoledge so far there are only two companies that I am aware that have tried servicing the CZ527 with a pre-fit barrel to date, Pac-Nor & Lothar Walther. Perhaps I just need to shop for a barrel blank and a reamer and approach this as a DIY.