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1000yds: Picking the right rifle
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<blockquote data-quote="WildRose" data-source="post: 1216057" data-attributes="member: 30902"><p>People burn them out quickly for the same reason we burn out .204 Rugers, 220 Swifts and other really high velocity cartriges. They shoot them hot and then keep shooting.</p><p></p><p>Let the barrel cool down well between shots and shot strings and even the "real barrel burners" will give you considerable barrel life.</p><p></p><p>Nothing you can do will make the Rum last as long as the 06 but most people will never shoot enough to burn one out.</p><p></p><p>The bigger problem with the large cased magnums is recoil which is why we so many of them for sale "barely used", "Just 50rds through it" etc.</p><p></p><p>They can also very quickly give a guy a pretty bad flinch and then it's a matter of a lot of hard work and retraining to get back to good basics.</p><p></p><p>For those reasons I always encourage anyone that doesn't have a lot of experience with magnum or med/large bores to see if they can find someone to let them run a few rounds through before tying up large amounts of money in a new one.</p><p></p><p>I hate seeing someone new to the sport start off with a bad experience. I have a Mod 70 stainless classic in 300 Rum I love to shoot but if I'd started with that rifle vs the 7RM I got for my 13th birthday I doubt I'd have ever turned into the shooting nut that I eventually became.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WildRose, post: 1216057, member: 30902"] People burn them out quickly for the same reason we burn out .204 Rugers, 220 Swifts and other really high velocity cartriges. They shoot them hot and then keep shooting. Let the barrel cool down well between shots and shot strings and even the "real barrel burners" will give you considerable barrel life. Nothing you can do will make the Rum last as long as the 06 but most people will never shoot enough to burn one out. The bigger problem with the large cased magnums is recoil which is why we so many of them for sale "barely used", "Just 50rds through it" etc. They can also very quickly give a guy a pretty bad flinch and then it's a matter of a lot of hard work and retraining to get back to good basics. For those reasons I always encourage anyone that doesn't have a lot of experience with magnum or med/large bores to see if they can find someone to let them run a few rounds through before tying up large amounts of money in a new one. I hate seeing someone new to the sport start off with a bad experience. I have a Mod 70 stainless classic in 300 Rum I love to shoot but if I'd started with that rifle vs the 7RM I got for my 13th birthday I doubt I'd have ever turned into the shooting nut that I eventually became. [/QUOTE]
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