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You do not HAVE to have a lathe to rebarrel a Remington. That is only if you are starting with a blank that has to be threaded and chambered.
There are a number of brands of rifle barrels that are contoured, threaded, and SHORT chambered. "All" that is required is a barrel vise, action wrench, chamber reamer and handle or pull rod, and headspace gauges... and the knowhow to use them.
My local guy says that in his early days, replacement barrels were sold LONG chambered because back then, a gunsmith had to have a lathe, there were many things available now that had to be made in the shop. So all he had to have was headspace gauges and did not have to tie up money in a wide selection of reamers.
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