Pete at Precision Barrel Works does a great job!

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My experience going local is it takes forever and not sure it is done right. If you want to know it is done right and fast I would remove the trigger, bolt and all the parts and ship it to Kampfeld customs in idaho. The round tube mailers work great with all the parts removed. He will also provide thread protector for small fee and finish will look like it is original and fast turn around.

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I'm sure your friend is fine, but I have a hard time imagining that no machinists or gunsmiths in Houston are able to operate a lathe, indicate in a part, and thread a barrel.

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ldg397 said:

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My experience going local is it takes forever and not sure it is done right. If you want to know it is done right and fast I would remove the trigger, bolt and all the parts and ship it to Kampfeld customs in idaho. The round tube mailers work great with all the parts removed. He will also provide thread protector for small fee and finish will look like it is original and fast turn around.

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I'm sure your friend is fine, but I have a hard time imagining that no machinists or gunsmiths in Houston are able to operate a lathe, indicate in a part, and thread a barrel.

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This. We probably have more machinists, machine shops and people capable of a relatively simple task like threading a barrel per square mile than anywhere else in the country here.

I can take a rifle to my gunsmith and unless he has a huge project in the works that he can't step away from, I will watch him threat a barrel while I wait the ~30 or so minutes.

But doing this doesn't sound as uber cool as saying you sent your gun to Idaho or Alaska or wherever to have some name the overwhelming majority of people have never heard of do the work on your gun.

I'm still laughing at the notion that the Houston freaking Texas metro has no machinists competent to machine UN threads

Precision Barrel Workin Hempstead is great and reasonably priced.

He did three of mine and turned them around next day

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People in this thread who don't know who Kampfeld Customs is are just showing their ignorance. I can assure you I live in an area with near as many machinists and one of the better gunsmithing schools in the country. There are only a few (3) people I let touch my guns, and really only one. The rest of the fudds are an absolute no go, and surprisingly also charge double or more what my guys do.

I'm also willing to wager you could send your barrel off to Kampfeld, LRI, Bugholes, or a few others and have it back sooner and cheaper even with shipping. Those places I guess are a IYKYK thing, which this may not be the right audience for.

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I'm sure they are a great shop but cutting a standard spec thread is the first thing any machinist learns and we are in a metro area with hundreds if not thousands of shops cutting some insane threads for O&G and other industries. It's no offense to any shop to say that there are a lot of places here who do bang up work

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People in this thread who don't know who Kampfeld Customs is are just showing their ignorance. I can assure you I live in an area with near as many machinists and one of the better gunsmithing schools in the country. There are only a few (3) people I let touch my guns, and really only one. The rest of the fudds are an absolute no go, and surprisingly also charge double or more what my guys do.

I'm also willing to wager you could send your barrel off to Kampfeld, LRI, Bugholes, or a few others and have it back sooner and cheaper even with shipping. Those places I guess are a IYKYK thing, which this may not be the right audience for.

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Naveronski said:

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ldg397 said:

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My experience going local is it takes forever and not sure it is done right. If you want to know it is done right and fast I would remove the trigger, bolt and all the parts and ship it to Kampfeld customs in idaho. The round tube mailers work great with all the parts removed. He will also provide thread protector for small fee and finish will look like it is original and fast turn around.

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I'm sure your friend is fine, but I have a hard time imagining that no machinists or gunsmiths in Houston are able to operate a lathe, indicate in a part, and thread a barrel.

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Not my friend just an excellent business with great customer service who I would recommend. I never said you couldn't get the work done in Houston. I am in BCS with more limited options and this company does things right and very fast. I had one rifle threaded local and it took almost 8 months because of their backlog.

I bought a fieldcraft 21" rifle someone had cut down and threaded and messed up bad. I got a great deal on the rifle less than half of what it was worth. I sent to kampfeld to recut at 18" provided a threaded belled adapter piece which converts the 1/2 28 to 5/8 24 to match the factory 18" fieldcrafts along with end caps for both conditions. I received the rifle back with work completed flawlessly with finish matching perfect within two weeks including shipping both ways. It was not your average cut and thread job.

A recommendation was asked for and I gave it. Take it or leave it. As for other replies to my recommendation, I will not indulge in disparaging remarks of other users or their comments.

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ldg397 said:

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I bought a fieldcraft 21" rifle someone had cut down and threaded and messed up bad.

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Hahaha omg. This is so clearly a bold faced LIE!!!! Anyone with a lathe can cut threads didn't you know!! I hear it's the first thing any machinist learns, no way anyone could've messing it up. You're wrong and confused!


/s if needed.

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ZOMG!!!!!!

Only a single specific person in all of the us that lives in a mountain town and has a name I like to throw around is capable of cutting threatds on a barrel. Absolutely nobody - NOBODY - anywhere else in all ofthe land has such skills as to perform such a feat of machining!

This thread is the epitome of what the OB has become.

You done messed up schmerbs- you're dealing with a real Chris Kyle here…

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schmellba99 said:

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meggy09 said:

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ldg397 said:

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I bought a fieldcraft 21" rifle someone had cut down and threaded and messed up bad.

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Hahaha omg. This is so clearly a bold faced LIE!!!! Anyone with a lathe can cut threads didn't you know!! I hear it's the first thing any machinist learns, no way anyone could've messing it up. You're wrong and confused!


/s if needed.

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ZOMG!!!!!!

Only a single specific person in all of the us that lives in a mountain town and has a name I like to throw around is capable of cutting threatds on a barrel. Absolutely nobody - NOBODY - anywhere else in all ofthe land has such skills as to perform such a feat of machining!

This thread is the epitome of what the OB has become.

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Not at all what I said. Your hyperbole is embarrassing and a low IQ attempt at a reply.

Because of the type of shooting I do and the time I put into it I have a very high expectations from gunsmiths. Especially when there are several affordable and easy to work with options that are known for consistently putting out very high quality work. Why would I not use them and recommend them?

If you're ok with some slack jaw yokel with a lathe who may or may not pay attention to run out, then absolutely have at it. I'm sure it won't affect you gut shooting a whitetail from a blind at 75 yards.

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FFS man

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schmellba99 said:

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meggy09 said:

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ldg397 said:

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I bought a fieldcraft 21" rifle someone had cut down and threaded and messed up bad.

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Hahaha omg. This is so clearly a bold faced LIE!!!! Anyone with a lathe can cut threads didn't you know!! I hear it's the first thing any machinist learns, no way anyone could've messing it up. You're wrong and confused!


/s if needed.

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ZOMG!!!!!!

Only a single specific person in all of the us that lives in a mountain town and has a name I like to throw around is capable of cutting threatds on a barrel. Absolutely nobody - NOBODY - anywhere else in all ofthe land has such skills as to perform such a feat of machining!

This thread is the epitome of what the OB has become.

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Not at all what I said. Your hyperbole is embarrassing and a low IQ attempt at a reply.

Because of the type of shooting I do and the time I put into it I have a very high expectations from gunsmiths. Especially when there are several affordable and easy to work with options that are known for consistently putting out very high quality work. Why would I not use them and recommend them?

If you're ok with some slack jaw yokel with a lathe who may or may not pay attention to run out, then absolutely have at it. I'm sure it won't affect you gut shooting a whitetail from a blind at 75 yards.

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