Renting or borrowing chamber reamers

[sprg03]

Is there anyone who would rent or loan me a 30-03 chamber reamer. I'm in the final stages of a project and need a 30-03 chamber reamer.

[1mark]

Contact Chuck in Denver. He does not rent tools but is a very good gunsmith. He posts here a lot.

[da gimp]

might check with brownells or Clymer's

[RCS]

I really doubt that any company has rough and finish 30-03 chamber reamers and it would be expensive to have them made. You for your might want to have a gunsmith use a 30-06 reamer and a throat reamer to extend the neck length to fit 30-03

[da gimp]

Clymers will have them I bet..............& I bet they have a web site, as they are one of the leading chamber reamer manufacturers in the USA, (thus the world)..... I'm not sure if Brownell rents chamber reamers or not........... but since they have a dern good web site & a toll free phone #, he'll not be out anything but 5 minutes of his time to find out...............

[chuckindenver]

rent a reamer.com

[sprg03]

Thanks to everyone who answered my post. My gunsmith does not have a 30-03 reamer. I will check with him about using a throat reamer. Barring that, i will check on renting a reamer for him to use.
I'm finishing up my Rod Bayonet rifle replica project. I'm finally on the the home stretch. About time to get it finished, right A5 Sniper?

[da gimp]

get jimmyt to show you some pix of his old original 1903 with WS............. & get goo to post pix of his 1903 sniper recreations............ if your RB turns out nearly as pretty as goo's did, I'll dern sure be looking forward to seeing her...................good luck hand.

[chuckindenver]

30-03 is not a standard reamer anymore...
you would have to pay to have one made....or....use a .270 reamer...since a .270 is a 30-03 necked down to 6.8mm it should work, to convert a 30-06 to 30-03.

[StockDoc]

I would check with these people, at one time they said there was no reamer they couldn't make.

http://www.pacifictoolandgauge.com/reamers2.htm#pull

[RCS]

Stockmouth, yes if money is no object ! just how much is a reamer worth to you. I saw a set of 505 Gibbs reamers a few years ago

[StockDoc]

they did a pull thru reamer in 8mm Mauser, something they didn't usually carry at the time for $158.00. A very fair price.

[Fred]

Thanks to everyone who answered my post. My gunsmith does not have a 30-03 reamer. I will check with him about using a throat reamer. Barring that, i will check on renting a reamer for him to use.
I'm finishing up my Rod Bayonet rifle replica project. I'm finally on the the home stretch. About time to get it finished, right A5 Sniper?

If your barrel is in 30-06, then it's about 2/10 of an inch shorter than an original 1903 30-03 (tel:1903 30-03) barrel. Lengthening the Neck of the chamber .2" will never fix the shorter length of the barrel. Heck, I'd leave it in the original caliber to save the added expense of your project. Just a thought.
Maybe you've figured out a way to lengthen the barrel? If so, that'd be pretty neat!

[chuckindenver]

hmmm....try a .270 reamer..
it was made off the 30-03 case..depends on how short the chamber is, you may have to dress the throught

[Fred]

Chuck, I don't see how the 30-06 neck could be lengthened in the chamber with a .270 reamer. The case dimensions of the 30-06 and the 30-03 are the same except for the neck of the 30-03 being .2" longer. The .270 diameter of the reamer's neck can't lengthen a 30-06 neck .2" to 30-03 length, can it? Though Long enough in the neck, the neck diameter of a .270 is too narrow. Maybe I'm missing something here...

[dirtdigger]

I think I have one you can use. Send me some contact info.

[chuckindenver]

the ,270 was made off the 30-03... not the 30-06.. most short chambers are short at the shoulder area, and not in the neck//just an idea

[Fred]

Yep, I'm aware that the .270 was developed from the 30-03 whose neck was reduced down to .270'. Since his barrel is or at least was originally chambered in 30-06, to get it chambered to 30-03 would only necessitate lengthening the Neck of the 30-06 chamber out to the length of the 30-03 neck which is 2/10's of an inch longer and which of course is what was taken off of the neck length of the old 30-03 to begin with to create the 30-06. I don't see how a reamer for a .270 chamber could help anything. The 30-03 and the 30-06 brass are dead on identical except for the difference in their Neck Length (.2"), so he would only need a chamber reamer for a 30-03 to lengthen the 30-06 neck to create a 30-03 clambering.
The 30-03 reamer would only need to lengthen the neck of a 30-06 chamber .2" to allow chambering of a 30-03 cartridge. How could the smaller diameter of the .270 reamer's neck cut out the required .2" of neck length necessary to chamber a 30-03 cartridge? The .270 reamer is too Small in the neck. .308 vs .270. It hasn't the correct Diameter at the neck, even though it would be long enough in neck Length. The cutting teeth of the .270 reamer would just spin within the larger diameter 30-06 (.308) chamber neck.

[Fred]

There's a company that sells 30-03 brass that's made from .270 Winchester brass. They also sell loaded 30-03 ammo too. It has a 220 grain bullet loaded down to about 2,000 fps for safe use in old Lever Actions, and so would certainly be more than safe for a Rod Bayonet 1903 Springfield.
I think I'm going to order some of their brass and load my own ammo that will duplicate the old military 30-03. I'll have my wife take Video of me firing it at a 100 yard target and will post an image of the grouping on it. Oughta be pretty neat!