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Sako Finnlight freebore ??
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<blockquote data-quote="Hired Gun" data-source="post: 84319" data-attributes="member: 1290"><p>What difference do you think the long freebore is going to do? For sure what it is going to do is allow you to load it to slightly greater velocity than a non-freebored barrel. It you think peak accuracy is with the bullet almost on the lands that assumption is not always true. The freebored portion is tight to the bullet dimension and it guides the bullets nice and straight into the rifling. Almost all my guns shoot better at .035 to as much as .150 off the rifling and on my Weatherby's is is much greater than that and they shoot .2's to .4's. At one time adding freebore was a standard practice for benchrest. Grandfather worked at the Rockford armory for a short time when he was in the Army. Barnes bullets suggest that their bullets work best with at least .050 off the rifling. I wouldn't be so hasty to judge it based on freebore alone. Sako's are known to shoot rather well right out of the box. Sako might also have done this to stregthen the beginning of the barrel by not extending the rifling all the way back on the Finnlight to lower the pressures and to help stop them from blowing the action to pieces when the barrels were letting go. I'm am still leary of the Finnlights until more time has passed to make sure they have that problem cured for sure.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hired Gun, post: 84319, member: 1290"] What difference do you think the long freebore is going to do? For sure what it is going to do is allow you to load it to slightly greater velocity than a non-freebored barrel. It you think peak accuracy is with the bullet almost on the lands that assumption is not always true. The freebored portion is tight to the bullet dimension and it guides the bullets nice and straight into the rifling. Almost all my guns shoot better at .035 to as much as .150 off the rifling and on my Weatherby's is is much greater than that and they shoot .2's to .4's. At one time adding freebore was a standard practice for benchrest. Grandfather worked at the Rockford armory for a short time when he was in the Army. Barnes bullets suggest that their bullets work best with at least .050 off the rifling. I wouldn't be so hasty to judge it based on freebore alone. Sako's are known to shoot rather well right out of the box. Sako might also have done this to stregthen the beginning of the barrel by not extending the rifling all the way back on the Finnlight to lower the pressures and to help stop them from blowing the action to pieces when the barrels were letting go. I'm am still leary of the Finnlights until more time has passed to make sure they have that problem cured for sure. [/QUOTE]
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