07-18-2012, 07:03 PM
If I were you, I would look around for a burnt .264" bore pipe from one of the competitive shooters that runs 6.5x284, .260 Rem, or something like that. I bet if you PM'd stokesrj, he could point you in the right direction.
Take that barrel, have it cut and re-profiled to your liking, threaded for a quality AR15 barrel extension, and drive on from there. It will be a shooter if it was on a match gun, and a competent smith turns it true on the spin axis of the lathe, without inducing heat stress.
Another option would to be just getting a barrel blank from Brownell's and starting from scratch. Cutting a 16" CLGS would be the cheapest route, other than getting a new 12.5" pipe.
Take that barrel, have it cut and re-profiled to your liking, threaded for a quality AR15 barrel extension, and drive on from there. It will be a shooter if it was on a match gun, and a competent smith turns it true on the spin axis of the lathe, without inducing heat stress.
Another option would to be just getting a barrel blank from Brownell's and starting from scratch. Cutting a 16" CLGS would be the cheapest route, other than getting a new 12.5" pipe.