Looked today at a Winchester Low Wall with a 27 inch barely tapered heavy barrel that said .218 Bee and a chamber that the owner informs me is a .219 Zipper Improved.  The stocks are varmint/bench rest non-originals, the barrel has Unertl style bases with a Redfield Model 3200 16X which still has the scope caps and also comes with a sun shade.   

I'm leery of shooting something as hot as the .219 Zipper Improved in a Low Wall action.  Since nothing is original but the action, and the scope is worth about 60% of the asking price, I'm thinking about taking a chance and either lining the barrel back to .218 Bee or re-barreling to something appropriate to the Low Wall action.

Thoughts or suggestions?  Thanks.

I'd pay up to $450 for the action plus what you thought the scope was worth, and rebarrel to a more appropriate action.  .219 zipper is definitely too much for a low wall, much less an improved version.   

dave

If you reline the chamber, you'll have about .700 of freebore for that little 218 and close to 1/3 what it will cost to rebarrel it. That barrel will fit small thread Hi Walls so, it will still have a value to resale and get some of your money back.

Frank

I really need to look more closely at what I'm buying when I describe it seeking assistance.  I was so eager to get the scope that I accepted the seller's description as being accurate and didn't focus on the action.  When I picked it up last night, I took it out of the case he'd included to wipe it down and discovered, much to my amazement, that the Low Wall is a High Wall.  So, no need to strip the barrel from the action or line it.  I will need to get the barrel re-marked to reflect the current chambering and I'm going to need to anneal some of those cases and fireform them.  And I'm going to have to leave the scope on the rifle or replace it with a Unertl or Lyman Targetspot. 

The seller included both .219 Zipper and .219 Zipper Improved dies, both RCBS, plus four of the MTM hinged cartridge boxes that hold 50 rounds and about 150 rounds of .30-30 brass necked down to .219 Zipper, but not annealed.  Since he reported splitting cases at the shoulder when fireforming, I guess I'll have to try annealing them first.  Is there a source for the proper technique to do this?

Serial number on the tang is 27xx.  Any idea what that might indicate as a year of manufacture?

Rem from LW to HW. even a blind squirrel finds or ends up with a acorn one in awhile. Whitey

fire up your lead pot.  hold the cases in the lead until the case almost burns your fingers.  Quench or let cool.
I have a 40-degree Zipper in an FN Mauser.  It's a pretty hot 22 if you lean on the powder can a little.

Rich

I anneal using a simple tool on a cordless drill.  The tool is a copper pipe cap that I drilled a hole in the center of.  I put a machine screw through that with a nut tightened up agains the cap.  The machine screw is the shank I chuck up into the cordless drill.  I have a propane tourch on the bench (fat cylinder).  I just put the case in the copper cap and rotate it in the flame until it I think it's right and dump in water.

I use a 3/4 cap for 577-450 Martini so you will probably need something smaller.  You can make it even smaller by inserting a piece of copper tube in the cap to act as a bushing.  If you need more depth to support the case, just make the tube longer.  You may want to peen them together with a center punch so the parts don't get separated.