Luked
WKR
Big goal of mine is this year is to get a couple of supressors.
Right now the only rifles I have that are threaded are the AR platforms I have.
None of my bolt guns are threaded.
I have a couple older Savages I hunt with a lot and thinking I am just going to do a Barrel swap on them since I should be able to do that myself and it would be a benefit for those rifles I think to have a better barrel.
But I also have a 300WSM in a Win Model 70 and a 243 in a Rem 700. that I shoot quite a bit also. And i know barrel swaps on them are not that easy and I don't have the ability or tools to do a swap myself.
I have talked to a local smith and he can thread them but a lot will depend on the dia of the barrel at the muzzle how he can do it.
He has said he likes to see .680 at the muzzle to do a 5/8x24. But if it is smaller than .680 he can thread to 1/2x28 and use an adapter, but he also does not care to use the adapters if he doesn't have to just due to liability reasons.
My question to you all is what is your thoughts on using an adapter. I understand that it would be a possible point to get loose. But with that being the only option if I went that way would it be smart to put red locktite on the adapter since I see no reason for it to ever come off if I am going to run the supressor when using it?
This is new territory for me and really don't know a ton about it and don't have a lot of guys around me running supressors yet.
Right now the only rifles I have that are threaded are the AR platforms I have.
None of my bolt guns are threaded.
I have a couple older Savages I hunt with a lot and thinking I am just going to do a Barrel swap on them since I should be able to do that myself and it would be a benefit for those rifles I think to have a better barrel.
But I also have a 300WSM in a Win Model 70 and a 243 in a Rem 700. that I shoot quite a bit also. And i know barrel swaps on them are not that easy and I don't have the ability or tools to do a swap myself.
I have talked to a local smith and he can thread them but a lot will depend on the dia of the barrel at the muzzle how he can do it.
He has said he likes to see .680 at the muzzle to do a 5/8x24. But if it is smaller than .680 he can thread to 1/2x28 and use an adapter, but he also does not care to use the adapters if he doesn't have to just due to liability reasons.
My question to you all is what is your thoughts on using an adapter. I understand that it would be a possible point to get loose. But with that being the only option if I went that way would it be smart to put red locktite on the adapter since I see no reason for it to ever come off if I am going to run the supressor when using it?
This is new territory for me and really don't know a ton about it and don't have a lot of guys around me running supressors yet.