Quote Originally Posted by Frank S View Post
There for a while I was buying non operation guns for a song and singing the song off key so to speak. Seriously I must have bought a dozen or more wall hangers their value in scrap metal at the time would have been more than I paid for them. This one .22 single shot that I bought someone had threaded the end of the barrel with a coarse thread die and from the looks of it a hand held die stock ruining the end of the barrel. I repaired what the guy at the pawn shop had purposely damaged so the rifle couldn't fire. He had done some minor damage to the rifle rendering it incapable of firing to be able to sell it and get it out of inventory because of the threading on the end of the barrel would make the weapon unsafe to fire should someone take it upon their selves to make a homemade silencer for it. I looked it over then measured the barrel then told the guy you know if you were careful you could cut this thread off and the barrel would still be legal length but just barely. He said yes but his boss wouldn't allow it because of this or that. So I bought it repaired the damage to the bolt and trigger but just left the thread on the end no need to cut it off if I were to do anything I would fashion a faux flash suppressor just for looks and to hide the ugly thread.
Ugly threads, even when done by a competent smith, are the bane of many long-guns, I have a knurled cover on one my father had done, it also meant no fore-sight remained so scopes only now, which with the factory rail are a royal PITA. I was looking at moderators (we don't call them suppressors or silencers as it frightens people) for a Mod.70, everyone needed threading of the barrel thus ugly and reproofing needed too. One day I may investigate a collet clamping system in a long sleeve back over the barrel for the collet clamping, with a precision guide ring over the muzzle, but I've more important jobs to do for now so it's a sometime never round-tuit for now.