Barrel Vise Recommendations

[lintond]

Lots of swapping barrels in this thread, but what do you all use to just attach a muzzle device? Do you still clamp into a barrel vice, or is there another method for those of us without barrel vices?



My experience has all been with AR15s where I just stick an action rod through the upper receiver.

Thanks.

I ordered some magnetic jaws for my normal work bench vise and glued some leather to them. I now use this for gun smithing tasks. Cleaning, mounting scopes, brakes, etc


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[SBR Sarge]

I ordered some magnetic jaws for my normal work bench vise and glued some leather to them. I now use this for gun smithing tasks. Cleaning, mounting scopes, brakes, etc


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This sounds perfect. Thanks!

 

[lintond]

This sounds perfect. Thanks!

These are what I got https://a.co/d/9wkvTHR and they work for what I paid. Not perfect but serviceable.

To be clear I don’t use it for barrel removal.

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[dballsmithda3rd]

My vote is on the Python HD

 

[LRI_Chad]

I have been making and selling these for the better part of 13 years. Nobody has ever broke it, wore it out, or returned one for a refund.


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To put this in perspective. We (LRI) hang around 100-120 barrels a month. Each of those barrels will go onto the receiver a minimum of 4 times before leaving here. (figure barrel fitting, engraving, test fire, final assembly, etc..) At 100 barrels a month, that's a minimum of 400 duty cycles monthly. X12 months, 4,800. Now figure the last 13 years. It approaches 63,000 duty cycles. The same vise, same collets. I did have to replace the 1" diameter grade 8 bolts about 5 or so years ago as the old ones were starting to feel funny. Keep in mind that the numbers I am quoting are conservative, as they do not account for the actual gunmaking side of my business. A full build from us might have the barrel on/off a dozen or so times before the thing leaves here.

Next, we are not a shop buying "Brand X custom clones" and screwing a barrel blank onto them at 100lbs/ft. I get stuff most of my competitors try to avoid. Mausers, Howa, 03 Springfields, Tikka, Ruger RPR, Weatherby, etc.. These are guns that do not like to come apart. I made this vise because I killed most of the ones sold in the Brownells catalog. It was born out of necessity.

Happy to help.

C.

LRI SuperDuty Series: Professional Gunsmithing Barrel Vise

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[DavidReed]

@LRI_Chad Have you ever considered making an action wrench to to accommodate non-R700 receivers to complement your barrel vise?

 

[PredatorX]

Jimbee was kind enough to let me borrow his barrel vice and that thing has 6 total bolts. It’s actually made by faltools and made for jerking off FN FAL’s barrels. Never spun once with taking off or putting a barrel on a tikka.