How to turn a pre to a postban barrel?

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[ARCHIVED THREAD] - How to turn a pre to a postban barrel?

Posted: 5/9/2003 10:23:25 PM EDT

I have a preban lower with a preban barrel.My postban lower has a better trigger in it. It would be nice to use the upper on both lowers. The barrel has a brake and shoots great. I don't want to effect the accuracy. What can be done to make it legal on both lowers?
Thanks for any ideas.
VM

Posted: 5/9/2003 11:12:07 PM EDT

[#1]

I had a pre-ban Oly barrel that I turned into a post-ban unit. I removed the bayo-lug and had a gunsmith cut the threads off the barrel and re-crown the unit. no problems

Posted: 5/10/2003 4:26:04 AM EDT

[#2]

uh there may be a problem with that if the threads themself make the gun 16", so if ya cut, ya have a whole new set of problems to deal with.lol..what i did was cut bayo off and have shop weld/silver solder a levang comp muzzle brake on the end..

Posted: 5/10/2003 5:24:46 AM EDT

[#3]

I had mine cut and crowned. I removed the gasblock/front sight assembly and installed a railed gasblock.

Posted: 5/10/2003 5:28:16 AM EDT

[#4]

Quoted:
ya have a whole new set of problems to deal with.lol

Yep, forgot to add, watch out for barrel length, I went from 24 to 18 so I had a little fudge factor.

Posted: 5/11/2003 4:05:22 PM EDT

[#5]

Put it in the closet and age it for 16 months...

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - How to turn a pre to a postban barrel?

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