Who to cut and recrown a Tikka Barrel?

[Steve300xcw]

Hose clamp for a cut guide? You fancy sumbitch!

 

[aschuler]

I hear/read these suggestions quite frequently.

My questions is, how does someone evaluate the competence of a gunsmith they have never used?

I had a 24" 308 barrel I wanted cut to 18" and threaded for a can. I called a local gunsmith wanting to support the locals as much as possible. When I asked about it he told me "a 308 will shoot terrible with that short of a barrel" and "you'll lose a bunch of accuracy".....that was when I decided to find someone else

 

[Feral Jared]

This thread popped up at the right time for me. I was about to drop off my 708 barrel at the local gunsmith, but checking out Kampfeld, I'm going to send it to Karl. He offers 5/8-24 on a sporter barrel with a shoulder for less than my local guy that was just going to do 1/2-28.