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Opinions wanted, or facts...About 6.5x284 or 260 barrel life
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<blockquote data-quote="Trickymissfit" data-source="post: 650949" data-attributes="member: 25383"><p>last time I was down at Borden everybody (well almost everbody) was using Federal Olympic Gold Medal Match ammo from certain lot numbers. Barrel life I don't know, but these guys were shooting well over 10K rounds a year on their barrels. Old Bill turned us onto the Federal stuff the first trip down there, and we never looked back. But even then we never seriously ran with those big dogs! (we did get a couple top five finishes) Shooting 100BR in rimfire is harder than most folks can imagine! I played with it for years, but the best groups were always in the very low eights for me, and that was with a certain lot of RWS. I ran into several constant nagging problems doing this, and the lead ring liked to drove me nuts! The bullets were cast (or swedged) out of an alloy that was just a little too soft for me. With a tuner (they call them "tunas") Tony was shooting a constant mid twos at fifty yards, and would often dip into the very high ones. Great groups, but second class down there! You know it's stiff when the guys with a 40XBR finish #20 in a field of twenty! </p><p> </p><p>I gave it up when I could no longer afford the ammo. At $13 dollars for fifty rounds it just got out of my budgit. Have not talked with Tony in several years now (close to six), so I don't now what he's doing now. If I could buy ammo for four dollars a box of fifty, I might get back into it again. You spend $2500 on a good bare rifle build (no sights), and another $1200 on optics (some guys have close to $5K in them); you suddenly find that you can't afford a couple bricks of ammo.</p><p>gary</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Trickymissfit, post: 650949, member: 25383"] last time I was down at Borden everybody (well almost everbody) was using Federal Olympic Gold Medal Match ammo from certain lot numbers. Barrel life I don't know, but these guys were shooting well over 10K rounds a year on their barrels. Old Bill turned us onto the Federal stuff the first trip down there, and we never looked back. But even then we never seriously ran with those big dogs! (we did get a couple top five finishes) Shooting 100BR in rimfire is harder than most folks can imagine! I played with it for years, but the best groups were always in the very low eights for me, and that was with a certain lot of RWS. I ran into several constant nagging problems doing this, and the lead ring liked to drove me nuts! The bullets were cast (or swedged) out of an alloy that was just a little too soft for me. With a tuner (they call them "tunas") Tony was shooting a constant mid twos at fifty yards, and would often dip into the very high ones. Great groups, but second class down there! You know it's stiff when the guys with a 40XBR finish #20 in a field of twenty! I gave it up when I could no longer afford the ammo. At $13 dollars for fifty rounds it just got out of my budgit. Have not talked with Tony in several years now (close to six), so I don't now what he's doing now. If I could buy ammo for four dollars a box of fifty, I might get back into it again. You spend $2500 on a good bare rifle build (no sights), and another $1200 on optics (some guys have close to $5K in them); you suddenly find that you can't afford a couple bricks of ammo. gary [/QUOTE]
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