[kilroyjones]

ETA: I called BMGparts the company I bought it from, the person I talked to was as nice as he could be. Apologized several times for the inconvience, told me to ship it back and they would make it right. He said it was possible there was a broken cartridge in the chamber. After I hung up from talking to him I got out the bore light and I see a nice brass ring in the chamber!

I called BMGparts back and told them what I found, and that I will keep the barrel and extract the casing myself. Again the man apologized several times, said if I had any trouble just let them know and it will be taken care of.

So today's lessons on 1919s:

1. Always check the chamber/bore on all surplus items before using them.
2. BMGparts.com is an outstanding company to buy from. They just earned one devoted customer today.








I bought what was suppose to be a 1919A4 barrel in .30-06 Went to set the head spacing this morning and the bolt (without firing pin) would not close into battery.

Pulled the barrel gave the chamber/bore another good scrubbing and looked to see if there was anything in the barrel. Nope, it was clean as could be. The chamber end has the short indexing notches of the US GI barrels. Not the long square shaped notches of the Izzy .308 barrels.

Slipped a Greek .30-06 round into the chamber by hand and the cartridge stopped with about 3/8" of the cartridge still sticking out the breech.

Slipped some Paki .308 round into the barrel and it too hung up with roughly 1/4' to 3/8" of the cartridge still sticking out.

Okay so we move on to some Remington 8mm Mauser and still the cartridge hangs up.

The only markings are 192 on the muzzle just below the bearing surface and the numbers 28 6 and a number 2 on the chamber end.

Any ideas?

 

[kkkriverrats]

It's not US

I dont know what it's chambered for but all US barrels (.30'06 )have different markings WWII barrels have a drawing number of D35322 sometimes with a dash suffix like -6, -12, -14and a manufactures ID i.e. SG, RIA, BA, (GL, GL SG have been reported) along with a Flaming Bomb and a "P". There are other markings believed to be numbers/symbols stamped by the manufactures to ID who, or what machine(s) or tooling made the barrel. Post war barrels have different drawing numbers depending on if it was Stellite chamber lined or regular steel

ETA: I called BMGparts the company I bought it from, the person I talked to was as nice as he could be. Apologized several times for the inconvience, told me to ship it back and they would make it right. He said it was possible there was a broken cartridge in the chamber. After I hung up from talking to him I got out the bore light and I see a nice brass ring in the chamber!

I called BMGparts back and told them what I found, and that I will keep the barrel and extract the casing myself. Again the man apologized several times, said if I had any trouble just let them know and it will be taken care of.

So today's lessons on 1919s:

1. Always check the chamber/bore on all surplus items before using them.
2. BMGparts.com is an outstanding company to buy from. They just earned one devoted customer today.








I bought what was suppose to be a 1919A4 barrel in .30-06 Went to set the head spacing this morning and the bolt (without firing pin) would not close into battery.

Pulled the barrel gave the chamber/bore another good scrubbing and looked to see if there was anything in the barrel. Nope, it was clean as could be. The chamber end has the short indexing notches of the US GI barrels. Not the long square shaped notches of the Izzy .308 barrels.

Slipped a Greek .30-06 round into the chamber by hand and the cartridge stopped with about 3/8" of the cartridge still sticking out the breech.

Slipped some Paki .308 round into the barrel and it too hung up with roughly 1/4' to 3/8" of the cartridge still sticking out.

Okay so we move on to some Remington 8mm Mauser and still the cartridge hangs up.

The only markings are 192 on the muzzle just below the bearing surface and the numbers 28 6 and a number 2 on the chamber end.

Any ideas?

 

[belt fed frog]

Rick may be pricey but he tops with quality and service

 

[Dubiousone]

Perhaps knowing the bore diameter might give a clue? Slugging the barrel is one way or using caliapers on the muzzle end and measure the grooves. You could also get some Cerrosafe from Brownells and cast the chamber, that will give ya exact dimensions.

http://www.brownells.com/aspx/NS/store/productdetail.aspx?p=384&st=cerrosafe&s=

(kinda sounds like you might have another piece of case in there)

 

[BeltFedPlus]

Could be .303 Brit.

Just thinking, there were a bunch of 1919a4 guns in .303 British. Could that be it? If it is, it's a great find. (wouldn't mind having that one myself)

Regards,
Tom