Fitting a target match barrel

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[bruce381]

don't glocks drop in on everything as in no fitting?

[smoothy8500]

don't glocks drop in on everything as in no fitting?

Not the Match Target.

[mtenenhaus]

i once asked the same question and here is the information i received which i went ahead and copied and pasted and kept....i would credit the source but for the life of me i can't recall who was kind enough to provide the information....Perhaps it came from Bar Sto or a member of this Forum?

With unloaded and field stripped gun:
"There are two main fitting points — the front of the barrel hood, and the bottom flat of the barrel that sits on the Glock barrel block.

Measure the width and length of the hood of the new barrel, and measure the ejection port opening of the Glock. Subtract the length of the Glock port, from the length of the barrel hood: this is the difference you need to remove from the front edge of the Bar-Sto barrel.

Use a #4 Swiss pillar file to take down the edge then try fitting the barrel into the slide. Press hard to make the barrel go into lockup, and use a soft nylon hammer to tap it into place.

Use a Magic Marker to check for high spots.

Once the sides of the barrel are fitted, fit the front of the barrel. Only the material from the front edge of the barrel hood should be removed.

Fit the barrel to the point to where you can push it up into battery and it stays locked, but will also drop out of battery with slight downward pressure of a fingertip on the hood. This is the ideal fit.

Once the barrel is fitted to the slide, remove material on the bottom flat of the barrel where the flat sits on the barrel block. Again, use Magic Marker to show the high spots where you need to remove material. If it won’t go onto the frame there is still material to be removed from the barrel flat.

Once these two fitting points are taken down so the barrel locks up fully into the slide, and the slide assembly will install onto the frame, you are done. Install the slide onto the frame and cycle the gun a few times."

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Thanks about what I thought

[ar15barrels]

What is the procedure to have a Bar-Sto match target barrel fitted on a Glock?
I will have a gunsmith do it, just don’t want to be stupid about how it’s done properly.
thanks for any responses.

The hood length gets cut at the front.
The sides of the hood may also need to be cut if they do not fit into the slide.
The chamber gets reamed to correct headspace depth (Barsto uses a fired case to set chamber length and this is often shorter than minimum).
The underside of the locking lug gets trimmed to set how tight the frame/slide fit.

[Hunt]

The hood length gets cut at the front.
The sides of the hood may also need to be cut if they do not fit into the slide.
The chamber gets reamed to correct headspace depth (Barsto uses a fired case to set chamber length and this is often shorter than minimum).
The underside of the locking lug gets trimmed to set how tight the frame/slide fit.

That chamber reaming part is the surprise, nothing mentioned on the Bar-Sto website about chamber reaming required. The youtube video they publish never mentions chamber reaming. This sucks, I bought the barrel thinking it was as shown in the video. Yes, it needs reaming. I really doubt I can find anyone in San Diego that won't ruin my barrel, I am absolutely not impressed with the 4-5 "gunsmiths" I chatted up. I asked one guy what his qualifications were and he says, "well, I have done stuff no one else could do". No way I will let some hacks ruin my gun, not interested in sending it into Bar-Sto for 6 months and another $350 for fitting and reaming.Thought for sure it accepted factory ammo as delivered.

[ar15barrels]

That chamber reaming part is the surprise, nothing mentioned on the Bar-Sto website about chamber reaming required. The youtube video they publish never mentions chamber reaming. This sucks, I bought the barrel thinking it was as shown in the video. Yes, it needs reaming. I really doubt I can find anyone in San Diego that won't ruin my barrel, I am absolutely not impressed with the 4-5 "gunsmiths" I chatted up. I asked one guy what his qualifications were and he says, "well, I have done stuff no one else could do". No way I will let some hacks ruin my gun, not interested in sending it into Bar-Sto for 6 months and another $350 for fitting and reaming.Thought for sure it accepted factory ammo as delivered.

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