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Steve Shelp, 338 is comming.
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<blockquote data-quote="Steve Shelp" data-source="post: 23170" data-attributes="member: 22"><p>SR90,</p><p> Alright. About time you got a heavy hitter in your arsenal! <img src="http://images/icons/grin.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> </p><p></p><p>As for the 26" barrel and rechambering.... that's a tough call. You've got a good rifle as is. Nothing wrong with a good 338 Lapua Mag. The 26" barrel would be limiting the Yogi sized case anyway for all out performance if you are going to use this for hunting right now. So you could be shooting and gaining a lot of knowledge from LR shooting as is and have plenty of horsepower.</p><p></p><p> But the flip side of it is if you did have this barrel chambered, you could be fireforming 338 Yogi brass and doing load developement in this shorter barrel and have your loads somewhat sorted out, then you put a good longer barrel on it and go do some damage. Yes your velocities would be lower, but you could still see the trends and min/max variations of different powders in a short barrel anyway. So you could sort out 90% of your loading with this barrel. Then when you rebarreled with a longer tube with the 338 Yogi chambering you would play with neck tension, seating depth, and go up/down a little bit on your powder load to fine tune to your new barrel harmonic patterns. This would minimize wear and tear on the new barrel and you would have all of your brass already fireformed.</p><p></p><p>So in simple terms it's really up to you. </p><p></p><p>As ofr my Yogi, this summer has really sucked for shooting. Work has gone thorugh the roof and then the roof caved in (I work for WorldCom... please don't send flowers) so I missed several matches this summer. So the Yogi barrel has been idle. I've got my second switch-barrel (6.5x55AI) on the HG for our IBS National Championship match this weekend. It has shown great promise, so were going to ride this horse for awhile. Got the Yogi barrel set aside, to be screwed back on when I get the time to sort it out again. I lsot the tune on it and din't have tme to regroup. The 6.5 barrel doesn't seem to be as picky. 2nd group on out it was 6.9" 10 shots at 1000yd. And that was all vertical. I put 2" of vertical in the group by not adjsuting my rest. I was simply testing even though it was in competition. So I just wanted 10 shots as quick/accuractley as possible, so I didn't take the time to adjust the vertical in my rest. So I would've ended up around 5" group without the "extra" vertical. We'll see.......</p><p></p><p>Steve</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Steve Shelp, post: 23170, member: 22"] SR90, Alright. About time you got a heavy hitter in your arsenal! [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] As for the 26" barrel and rechambering.... that's a tough call. You've got a good rifle as is. Nothing wrong with a good 338 Lapua Mag. The 26" barrel would be limiting the Yogi sized case anyway for all out performance if you are going to use this for hunting right now. So you could be shooting and gaining a lot of knowledge from LR shooting as is and have plenty of horsepower. But the flip side of it is if you did have this barrel chambered, you could be fireforming 338 Yogi brass and doing load developement in this shorter barrel and have your loads somewhat sorted out, then you put a good longer barrel on it and go do some damage. Yes your velocities would be lower, but you could still see the trends and min/max variations of different powders in a short barrel anyway. So you could sort out 90% of your loading with this barrel. Then when you rebarreled with a longer tube with the 338 Yogi chambering you would play with neck tension, seating depth, and go up/down a little bit on your powder load to fine tune to your new barrel harmonic patterns. This would minimize wear and tear on the new barrel and you would have all of your brass already fireformed. So in simple terms it's really up to you. As ofr my Yogi, this summer has really sucked for shooting. Work has gone thorugh the roof and then the roof caved in (I work for WorldCom... please don't send flowers) so I missed several matches this summer. So the Yogi barrel has been idle. I've got my second switch-barrel (6.5x55AI) on the HG for our IBS National Championship match this weekend. It has shown great promise, so were going to ride this horse for awhile. Got the Yogi barrel set aside, to be screwed back on when I get the time to sort it out again. I lsot the tune on it and din't have tme to regroup. The 6.5 barrel doesn't seem to be as picky. 2nd group on out it was 6.9" 10 shots at 1000yd. And that was all vertical. I put 2" of vertical in the group by not adjsuting my rest. I was simply testing even though it was in competition. So I just wanted 10 shots as quick/accuractley as possible, so I didn't take the time to adjust the vertical in my rest. So I would've ended up around 5" group without the "extra" vertical. We'll see....... Steve [/QUOTE]
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