To thread?

[CAH]

Need some opinions!

I have a .243 Remington BDL made in 1986. Beautiful gun, maybe a box of shells through it. Is it dumb to thread it? I love nostalgia but will shoot it rarely if it is not suppressed. Is this sacrilege for me to thread it? Should I stop being a sentimental pansy and thread it to keep the gun in rotation?

What would you guys do?

 

[Pilsner]

Thread it and use it - it is a tool not an object of sentiment. Unless it is a collector item of uber-value or it was great-grandpa's (which based on date it is not).
The middle ground is to just pick up an already threaded, short barrel pre-fit for it and save the old barrel if you ever want to return it to its original condition.

 

[Taudisio]

Need some opinions!

I have a .243 Remington BDL made in 1986. Beautiful gun, maybe a box of shells through it. Is it dumb to thread it? I love nostalgia but will shoot it rarely if it is not suppressed. Is this sacrilege for me to thread it? Should I stop being a sentimental pansy and thread it to keep the gun in rotation?

What would you guys do?

I would thread it. I have one rifle from my uncle that passed. It could have stayed how it was and lived in my gun safe, or I could change it to make it useful to me and still carry a memory I could take afield. The only part on the rifle that isn’t changed is the action. It’s still my uncles rifle.

 

[Judd]

Thread it camp here too.

 

[Timplant]

My brother and I recently had a conversation with our dad about such things. My brother is a big hot rod/horsepower guy, and I got the outdoors side of dad.

He said, shoot my guns and make the fairlane as fast as you want. Sitting in a barn or on the shelf does nothing for them.

They are tools, use them. If you won't use it the way it is, make it so you can, the memories are what YOU want them too be, the stuff is just stuff.