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Need help with after market bull barrelsand tweeks
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<blockquote data-quote="Buffalobob" data-source="post: 216196" data-attributes="member: 8"><p>You do not mention whether you have even fired the rifle yet. As a general rule a 1 MOA rifle is good enough for hoofed animals out to about 600 yards and the bigger the hoof the further the rule stretches. There is not any need to replace the barrel until you have determined that the barrel is no good. If you reload then you have a lot of options on bullet selection and powder selection. A slow burning powder with a high BC bullet will help things along.</p><p></p><p>It should be very seldom that you would need to shoot more than twice in a hurry, although that does sometimes happen. Barrel heating up is not a fault of the rifle, it is the fault of the shooter. I don't think it is worth the price of rebarreling. So that is my opinion of the world and it is why I have a 308 that may see 22 rounds go down range in 15 minutes. I don't waste magnum barrels on shooting rapid fire at paper.</p><p></p><p>Simply develop your loads with about 5-10 minutes of cooling between shots. The last group I shot with a 257 Wby took about 30 minutes to shoot, but group size was less than 0.2. In a three hour test period I might not even shoot 20 rounds.</p><p></p><p>If you don't reload then I would say spend the money on reloading gear instead of rebarreling because with the reloading gear you probably can get the barrel to shoot plus all your other guns benefit.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Buffalobob, post: 216196, member: 8"] You do not mention whether you have even fired the rifle yet. As a general rule a 1 MOA rifle is good enough for hoofed animals out to about 600 yards and the bigger the hoof the further the rule stretches. There is not any need to replace the barrel until you have determined that the barrel is no good. If you reload then you have a lot of options on bullet selection and powder selection. A slow burning powder with a high BC bullet will help things along. It should be very seldom that you would need to shoot more than twice in a hurry, although that does sometimes happen. Barrel heating up is not a fault of the rifle, it is the fault of the shooter. I don't think it is worth the price of rebarreling. So that is my opinion of the world and it is why I have a 308 that may see 22 rounds go down range in 15 minutes. I don't waste magnum barrels on shooting rapid fire at paper. Simply develop your loads with about 5-10 minutes of cooling between shots. The last group I shot with a 257 Wby took about 30 minutes to shoot, but group size was less than 0.2. In a three hour test period I might not even shoot 20 rounds. If you don't reload then I would say spend the money on reloading gear instead of rebarreling because with the reloading gear you probably can get the barrel to shoot plus all your other guns benefit. [/QUOTE]
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