Finally got my barrel back from the shop. This build started in December. Drilled the gas port hole Sunday a #42 bit. The barrel is a M1 Garrand barrel blank from 3/1945 ... Yeah that's pre nuclear blast era ! The metal is different cuts smoother, took a deep color treatment . Lance put a Match chamber on it and I fired one test round Sunday AM. Brass looked good and ejected hard. Still need a Brake and Scope. Oh its 24 inches long and not that heavy.