Weatherby Vanguard 30-06 to 25-06?

[bosshoff]

I have a Weatherby Vanguard 30-06 with a beautiful laminated stock. I have no use for a 30-06 rifle, as I use a 7 mm Remington mag for larger game. My dad gave me the rifle. He won it in a charity raffle. He loves the “look” of the rifle. I’d like to have it re-barreled to 25-06. From what I have read the 25-06 does really well with a 25 to 26 inch barrel. I do not see a lot of factory offerings for this round. Most of the factory offerings are 22 to 24 inches in length. The weather be Vanguard/Howa actions are metric and usually very tightly installed. I have started reading about companies that sell “pre-fit” barrels using a nut similar to a Savage. I am wondering if anybody has any advice for me as to how to get this re-barreled being budget conscious. I don’t want to sell the rifle. I don’t know of a gunsmith I trust to perform this work on this rifle. Any ideas?

 

[222 mag]

Some barrel manufacturer's have gunsmiths to do the rebarrel in house. Kreiger does, not Shure which other ones. I've never had them do one as I have a good Smith local, but very happy with the 4 kreiger barrels he's done for me.

 

[AWS]

PacNor did my 6x45 thirty years ago, they did a nice job. All my recent ones I've done with nut barrels.

Doing it yourself you'll need an action wrench, barrel vice, headspace gauges and a lot of patients.

I built an action/barrel vice a number of years ago. I built it pretty stout as Savage was still using Olga the Russian shot putter to take tighten barrel nuts.