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A friend gave me a barrel he found in his dad's accumulated stuff that I believe to be some flavor of M16 barrel.
It's pencil/A1 profile, .625 at the gas port, 20 inches, rifle length, old rifle style ramps on the barrel extension. It is also chrome lined with the Colt Markings " C MP C", but no caliber or twist. Bore is immaculate and shiny with no corrosion. Crown is in perfect shape too.
Here's the problem though. At some point it had a P&W muzzle device on it someone wrenched off. This buggered about half the threads. Looks like it just flattened them.
It also is drilled for a FSB that I don't have.
How hard would it be to:
1. Fix the threads? Can I just chase them with the correct die?
2. Put on another FSB with taper pins even though it's already been drilled? Could a good gunsmith line up some new holes close enough to work?
If it's not possible or expedient to fix it, I'm thinking of a set screw gas block and a free float handguard. Or maybe finding a smith adventurous enough to turn it into a dissipator.
It's pencil/A1 profile, .625 at the gas port, 20 inches, rifle length, old rifle style ramps on the barrel extension. It is also chrome lined with the Colt Markings " C MP C", but no caliber or twist. Bore is immaculate and shiny with no corrosion. Crown is in perfect shape too.
Here's the problem though. At some point it had a P&W muzzle device on it someone wrenched off. This buggered about half the threads. Looks like it just flattened them.
It also is drilled for a FSB that I don't have.
How hard would it be to:
1. Fix the threads? Can I just chase them with the correct die?
2. Put on another FSB with taper pins even though it's already been drilled? Could a good gunsmith line up some new holes close enough to work?
If it's not possible or expedient to fix it, I'm thinking of a set screw gas block and a free float handguard. Or maybe finding a smith adventurous enough to turn it into a dissipator.