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If the labor was not free you could have easily added another $400 to the cost.
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My guess is I'd have added about $200 more to the total cost if I had to do it myself instead of finding a gun smithing student to do the work. There are a lot of things a guy can do for himself if he chooses to do so and has the time and patience to do it. If you are just swapping barrels it doesn't take a lot of specialized tools to do so unless you are going to blueprint the whole action.
A hobbyist can build a barrel vise, buy an action wrench, and rent the reamers and gages and install a pre-fit short chamber barrel pretty easily on a Mauser rifle. There are places that will weld on your bolt handle for around $40. The only thing I probably would have paid a gun smith to do was to install the one piece base and the speed lock kit.