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<blockquote data-quote="R. Cram" data-source="post: 2801676" data-attributes="member: 116633"><p>I shoot High Power and a .260 rem probably 2500 rnds before setting back the barrel an inch or so then another 1500 rnds after that. This meant every year I would put another barrel on the rifle which I do myself, chambering is not the most difficult machining job to do thankfully or it might be beyond my abilities. I shot a 600 yd match at Camp Perry years ago and a shooter came over to me after the 20 shot string, his name was Peter LaBerge, and asked me if I knew what he was doing during the string and I replied I had no idea as I was concentrating as much as I could to keep them in the middle, every shot at 600 yds you have to check the wind and guess your correction. He said he could tell I was shooting fairly well and would wait untill I shot then use my shot to see what the wind was doing then make his own correction using partially my shots for dope. That string I happened to shoot a 200 with 13X which is very good for me he won with a 200 15X. The next match I dropped 1 point and after that match he came over and told me my mistake with that shot which was as he told me I was shooting at the left side of the 10 ring thinking the wind would push me farther into the middle when it changed but like he explained it is more likely for ot to let off than increase so that happened,it let off and I shot a 9 my strategy was not correct. He knew what I was thinking and was still wind doping off my target while shooting next to me, He was a very good and smart shooter. The reason for this long winded story is showing that he was very experianced and undoubtably had shot out dozens of barrels and I respect what he said and he claimed that when his barrels got long in the tooth he got some medium grit grinding compound with diamond dust in it and would polish the throat area and greatly prolong the barrel life. Like you said if your barrel is getting close to being done what do you have to loose. By the way that perticular barrel I was shooting was on of the best shooters I ever had and was a douglas lapped and installed by the great Jim Cloward, at the time we were using Iron sights and with that barrel you could click you sights back and forth inside the X ring at 600 and it would keep the shots insise the Xring back and forth that always fascinated me that your eye could see well enough to do that</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="R. Cram, post: 2801676, member: 116633"] I shoot High Power and a .260 rem probably 2500 rnds before setting back the barrel an inch or so then another 1500 rnds after that. This meant every year I would put another barrel on the rifle which I do myself, chambering is not the most difficult machining job to do thankfully or it might be beyond my abilities. I shot a 600 yd match at Camp Perry years ago and a shooter came over to me after the 20 shot string, his name was Peter LaBerge, and asked me if I knew what he was doing during the string and I replied I had no idea as I was concentrating as much as I could to keep them in the middle, every shot at 600 yds you have to check the wind and guess your correction. He said he could tell I was shooting fairly well and would wait untill I shot then use my shot to see what the wind was doing then make his own correction using partially my shots for dope. That string I happened to shoot a 200 with 13X which is very good for me he won with a 200 15X. The next match I dropped 1 point and after that match he came over and told me my mistake with that shot which was as he told me I was shooting at the left side of the 10 ring thinking the wind would push me farther into the middle when it changed but like he explained it is more likely for ot to let off than increase so that happened,it let off and I shot a 9 my strategy was not correct. He knew what I was thinking and was still wind doping off my target while shooting next to me, He was a very good and smart shooter. The reason for this long winded story is showing that he was very experianced and undoubtably had shot out dozens of barrels and I respect what he said and he claimed that when his barrels got long in the tooth he got some medium grit grinding compound with diamond dust in it and would polish the throat area and greatly prolong the barrel life. Like you said if your barrel is getting close to being done what do you have to loose. By the way that perticular barrel I was shooting was on of the best shooters I ever had and was a douglas lapped and installed by the great Jim Cloward, at the time we were using Iron sights and with that barrel you could click you sights back and forth inside the X ring at 600 and it would keep the shots insise the Xring back and forth that always fascinated me that your eye could see well enough to do that [/QUOTE]
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