Quote: tujungatoes Originally Posted by I remember brainstorming this with you a while back. I actually went through those pm's again when I was getting ready to see if there was anything I forgot. As far as the barrel...Yeah basically. Faced it up to the chamber mouth, turned it down to just under an inch, and bored the trunnion out to match. The other thing we did was step down to a .250 barrel pin and cheated it up as far away from the bore as possible.

The biggest thing is the straight walled case when securing the barrel to the trunnion. I was thinking there would be enough material to support the chamber if you turned the trunnion journal down to fit a 23mm trunnion. I went over my idea with Tony Rumore and he mentioned bolt trust numbers. After looking things over, the 7.62 numbers ran quite a bit higher than the 50 beowulf, I figured I would just use a virgin trunnion and a 4mm pin like the VZ58. The 50 beowulf is down right mellow when comparing it to just about any rifle caliber, even the mid range stuff like 556 and 762x39.The biggest thing is the straight walled case when securing the barrel to the trunnion. __________________

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