Precision Rifle Rebarreling and

 Case Preparation on a Home Shop Lathe

plus

Load Development and

Long Range Shooting

Book

by John Stranahan

            Precision Rifle Rebarreling and Case Preparation on a Home Shop Lathe is an 83 page self published book printed in black and white on 8.5 x 11 inch paper on a 1200 dots per inch laser printer. The book, which is written by an experienced home-shop machinist, describes the aspects of, lathe alignment, flood cooling, tooling, fixtures, and setup that lead to a precision rebarreling job. The book discusses the various methods to hold the barrel in the lathe, and describes the method, chambering through the spindle, in detail. The book discusses the limitations of the home shop lathe with respect to the barrel size that it can hold and the depths of cuts that can be taken. The book does not cover a multitude of action types, instead, a Remington project rifle is followed from start to finish concentrating on techniques that lead to a precision rebarreling job. Two additional barrel jobs are detailed on the CD. The techniques in the book can be applied to any rifle.

            Chapter 4 of the book deals with preparation of quality ammo to take advantage of a precision rifle. Case preparation for a standard, tight neck, and turn neck chamber are discussed in detail. Turning case necks by hand or in the lathe is described. Both threaded dies and straight line dies are discussed.

            Load Development by the incremental load method is described in Chapter 5 through an example. The 2 x 2 Factorial Design is described through an example as a means to investigate more than one factor in a load at a time. The Simplex Optimization Method is applied to load development through several examples as a means of finding an accuracy load. I have borrowed these last two, 3-dimensional, load development techniques from industry and introduce them here in this book.

            Chapter 6 of the book deals with long range shooting, all the way from taking your first 600 yard shot, to using mirage to estimate wind speed. The effects of barrel heat, ambient temperature, vertical wind drift, spin drift, parallax and cant on impact position are discussed briefly.

            The book includes a CD which contains duplicate high resolution color copies of over 194 photos that are in the book in a Windows, Power book, and I-Mac compatible format. In addition there are about 400 photos describing the building of the a Receiver Truing Jig (53 photos), a bolt face squaring tool (19 photos), A toolpost mount for the Dremel so that it can be used on the lathe (10 photos) and many general home-shop machining projects on the mill and lathe involving rifle and some pistol and car topics. The CD also includes a photo viewing program for the PC. Use this link to view the Contents of this CD. Use the links below for a longer description of some of these projects.

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Readers that might be interested in this book

include: a lathe owner (or a person considering purchasing a lathe) that might be considering doing his own rifle work on the lathe or doing Home-Shop machining. Additionally a gunsmith, who might be considering upgrading his chambering operation with flood cooling and lathe alignment might be interested. Another type of reader that may find the contents of value is the rifleman considering having a precision custom rifle built; the book will familiarize the reader with some of terms and techniques involved in rebarreling a precision rifle. A competition shooter may find some value in the 3-dimensional load development techniques found in chapter 5. Load development examples includes a .308 rifle suitable for modified Hunter’s Benchrest Competition and a Long Range Hunting Rifle. The techniques can be applied to any competition rifle.

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Table Of Contents

Readers Comments

“I liked it so much I am ordering a second copy for a friend”

Herbert Kaichi

Comments that have been posted on the Web

“Finally someone has explained lathe alignment in a manner that I can understand”

“ A good book, and an even better CD”

“Concisely written”

Some Samples of my Writing

Photos of a Draft Shield for the RCBS Electronic Balance;

Simplex Optimization Load Development Explained.

Brownells Action Wrench Modification for use with a Torque Wrench

Rifle Bolt Face Squaring Tool & Dremel Mount for the Lathe

Rebarreling and Home-Shop Machining Journal

Inquiries

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ADDRESS

John Stranahan

4139 De Leon

Houston, Texas 77087

Web Site Last Update, November 1, 2007

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Home Barreled 26.5 inch Hart long Leade .300 WSM on Long Action Remington 700 with MK IV Leupold 8.5 x 25 x 50 Long Range MI scope, HS Precision Stock. The machining of the stainless barrel and the production of the satin grey bead blast finish on this stainless steel is detailed on the CD. Mag and feed lip modifications to the .300 belted magnum action are also detailed.