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Does fluting affect barrel accuracy?
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<blockquote data-quote="durak" data-source="post: 666470" data-attributes="member: 34244"><p>Thanks Bart B </p><p> </p><p>In my short 30 years a shooting in the military, hunting, sporting and some competition and living with a brother-in-law that has probably taken close to 5000 non-contoured and contoured barrels blanks from Shilen, Kreiger, Hart, Lilja, Bartlien, Douglas, and Wilson and turned them into some of the most accurate weapons on the planet, I believe I can make a few comments here. </p><p> </p><p>1st - around 80% of the guns my bro-in-law builds are fluted - he flutes everyone of them himself - except mine, I do those. I have NEVER seen one shoot bad because of the fluting - in fact, in some cases I've seen barrels shoot better after they were fluted, most likely not because of the fluting but because the barrel was re-crowned and in some cases re-headspaced and trued. </p><p> </p><p>2nd - Bart B - you hit it on the head - truing an action and the bolt is the key - I've seen 416 Rigby's, 505 Gibbs, and 375 H&H's shoot sub 1/2 MOA @ 200yards with Dangerous game ammo (Barnes and Woodleigh solids) and the main reason was truing the action. Those cartridges are not "supposed" to shoot that well....</p><p> </p><p>3rd - In a close second to truing the action is the process in which the barrel is threaded, chambered, headspaced, and crowned. If any of these steps are done incorrectly you'll most likely have issues.</p><p> </p><p>4th - I believe that handloading is to blame for most accurracy issues, especially in a custom rifle built by a competent Gunsmith.</p><p> </p><p>After saying all of that, I believe that fluting has such a minimal effect on accurracy that it's not even worth discussing over other things that can seriously effect accurracy!</p><p> </p><p>I know first hand one of the reasons that Shilen is anti-fluting - Law suits - I know of a Shilen barrel that was fluted by a wanna-be-gunsmith that came apart on a customer. The wanna-be-gunsmith fluted it to close to the bore and after the second shot it came apart. We all know what happened next - law suit against the builder and Shilen. How would you respond if you were Shilen?</p><p> </p><p>For what it's worth.....<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="durak, post: 666470, member: 34244"] Thanks Bart B In my short 30 years a shooting in the military, hunting, sporting and some competition and living with a brother-in-law that has probably taken close to 5000 non-contoured and contoured barrels blanks from Shilen, Kreiger, Hart, Lilja, Bartlien, Douglas, and Wilson and turned them into some of the most accurate weapons on the planet, I believe I can make a few comments here. 1st - around 80% of the guns my bro-in-law builds are fluted - he flutes everyone of them himself - except mine, I do those. I have NEVER seen one shoot bad because of the fluting - in fact, in some cases I've seen barrels shoot better after they were fluted, most likely not because of the fluting but because the barrel was re-crowned and in some cases re-headspaced and trued. 2nd - Bart B - you hit it on the head - truing an action and the bolt is the key - I've seen 416 Rigby's, 505 Gibbs, and 375 H&H's shoot sub 1/2 MOA @ 200yards with Dangerous game ammo (Barnes and Woodleigh solids) and the main reason was truing the action. Those cartridges are not "supposed" to shoot that well.... 3rd - In a close second to truing the action is the process in which the barrel is threaded, chambered, headspaced, and crowned. If any of these steps are done incorrectly you'll most likely have issues. 4th - I believe that handloading is to blame for most accurracy issues, especially in a custom rifle built by a competent Gunsmith. After saying all of that, I believe that fluting has such a minimal effect on accurracy that it's not even worth discussing over other things that can seriously effect accurracy! I know first hand one of the reasons that Shilen is anti-fluting - Law suits - I know of a Shilen barrel that was fluted by a wanna-be-gunsmith that came apart on a customer. The wanna-be-gunsmith fluted it to close to the bore and after the second shot it came apart. We all know what happened next - law suit against the builder and Shilen. How would you respond if you were Shilen? For what it's worth.....:D [/QUOTE]
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