| Tight forarm [message #35417] |
Tue, 06 January 2015 20:13  |
bikerpipes
Messages: 96
Registered: December 2014
Location: Elizabeth City North Caro...
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I got my new 44 mag barrel today my new pachmare forearm fits tight to the barrel there is supposed to be a gap right can I get longer forearm screws and shim them to get clearance between barrel and forearm.If so what is the size of the screws that attach the forearm.
If God brings you to it He will bring you through it.
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| Re: Tight forarm [message #35444 is a reply to message #35441] |
Wed, 07 January 2015 11:26  |
jamesgammel
Messages: 1708
Registered: August 2012
Location: Lovell, Wyoming
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I thought all pachy forends now use hanger bars, both Contender and encore? The contender one I know is a bit snug on the sides, but it's a floppy kind of rubber. I would think intentional so crap and water doesn't find it's way in. It should help absorb barrel harmonics, and not exert any pressure to "push" the barrel like a harder composite or wood forend would do. I don't know that "there is supposed to be a gap", where did you get that idea from? If you don't want a gap put a rubber o-ring between the barrel and the pachy, and just "snug up, don't try to squash the o-ring to paper thin or less, maybe just "half-compressed". Then an 1/8th inch o-ring would leave a 1/16th gap. The o-ring would act like a lock washer. You never want forend screws to bottom in the barrel's hole, so i wouldn't get longer screws. if you do, you may have to take up some more gap under the bottom of the forend's hole, that's the dog chasing it's own tail.
Jim
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| Re: Tight forarm [message #35445 is a reply to message #35444] |
Wed, 07 January 2015 11:40 |
bikerpipes
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I just thought the forearm was supposed to be free floating not touch barrel.
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| Re: Tight forarm [message #35612 is a reply to message #35445] |
Sat, 10 January 2015 20:16 |
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Crubear
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Registered: March 2010
Location: NW Georgia
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Contender Pachy's use the hanger bar, Encore does not - and you have to watch which forend you get. There is/was a standard and magnum version. The standard version wouldn't engage enough threads and would rip out with the 460/500 Mags.
They can be tight on the Encore barrel, very tight - such that it takes the screws to seat it all the way. This is SUPPOSED to not be a problem because the "rubber" doesn't swell when hot/cold/wet
Honestly, I have all the barrels I want or could ever need..... wait, look, there's another!!
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