Thread: 22lr Benchrest: Rebarrel a 22, preferred gunsmith

Originally Posted by Jaco Goosen

Have you decided on the chamber/reamer you want to be used for the chamber?

Will you be going with a different twist on the new barrel?'

Do you wanna go to a much heavier profile barrel? The design of the action kinda dictates max barrel diameter. Could do a strait like I did on my CZ452.

The T1 is not the the easiest of rimfires to replace the barrel on. A number of prefit barrel manufactures stopped doing barrels for the T1 because of an issue some rifle builders had after removing the factory barrel.

I haven't done a T1 yet but Ive done the research and have decided on how Id go about rebarreling a T1.

True flite barrels? You can support local, the team at TF deluvers a good product. Go Ultra match.

Ive got several of the more popular 22 LR match reamers - Reach out if interested.

Note: It takes longer to finish the build on a rimfire compared to a centrefire - maybe its just me wasting a lot of time testing.

I haven't decided on the chamber, I'm aware there are a ridiculous amount of 22lr reamers available so was going to wait and see what future smith's had available/would recommend.

I'd probably be looking at something like medium Palma, do not stupidly heavy, probably 24" may 26".
Will likely stick with a 1:16 twist, doesn't seem like enough conclusive evidence that the tighter twists are worthwhile.

I have heard the issues with removing the T1 barrels so I was going to do that myself, or atleast attempt to.
It sounds like it's not a fun task but certainly not impossible with enough heat applied.

Barrels blanks I was initially looking at importing a Bartlein but I've since heard a lot of good things about TF rimfire barrels so might just go that route.