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Rifles, Bullets, Barrels & Ballistics
Stock action vs blueprinted vs custom ?
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<blockquote data-quote="Pdvdh" data-source="post: 1236310" data-attributes="member: 4191"><p>I've come to agree with your assessment of larger cartridges placing more stress / strain on the firearm, and the greater challenge posed to the firearm hardware in order to realize comparable accuracy from lesser capable hardware.</p><p></p><p>However gunsmiths on this forum have expressed disagreement. Along the lines of, as long as the components are assembled with proper alignment, precision, and tolerance, the greater energy and recoiling cartridges will shoot just as well as the lower energy cartridges. Even if the mass of the action and barrel are reduced. Which perplexes me. They should have a pretty good idea, no? </p><p></p><p>The 222 Rem and 223 Rem seem to shoot well out of so many rifle platforms. Even AR15s will often produce surprisingly good precision. And those actions are loose as a goose.</p><p></p><p>What I absorb from the Forums, hear from others, and observe first hand, leads me to think outstanding precision from smaller case capacity cartridges is more common than from larger capacity cartridges. Is it that the heavier recoiling rifles test the shooter's skill level more than the powder puffs? I suspect the factual test data and documentation to resolve this question remains elusive because of all the different variable factors comparing differing actions on rifles of different construction and weight. And perhaps most importantly - who's got the time and money for such an undertaking???</p><p></p><p>Perhaps one could study shorter range competitive equipment and records, and maybe see a trend? Or maybe not. I don't follow competitive shoots at all, so I don't know if pertinent data could be mined from those record books or not.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Pdvdh, post: 1236310, member: 4191"] I've come to agree with your assessment of larger cartridges placing more stress / strain on the firearm, and the greater challenge posed to the firearm hardware in order to realize comparable accuracy from lesser capable hardware. However gunsmiths on this forum have expressed disagreement. Along the lines of, as long as the components are assembled with proper alignment, precision, and tolerance, the greater energy and recoiling cartridges will shoot just as well as the lower energy cartridges. Even if the mass of the action and barrel are reduced. Which perplexes me. They should have a pretty good idea, no? The 222 Rem and 223 Rem seem to shoot well out of so many rifle platforms. Even AR15s will often produce surprisingly good precision. And those actions are loose as a goose. What I absorb from the Forums, hear from others, and observe first hand, leads me to think outstanding precision from smaller case capacity cartridges is more common than from larger capacity cartridges. Is it that the heavier recoiling rifles test the shooter's skill level more than the powder puffs? I suspect the factual test data and documentation to resolve this question remains elusive because of all the different variable factors comparing differing actions on rifles of different construction and weight. And perhaps most importantly - who's got the time and money for such an undertaking??? Perhaps one could study shorter range competitive equipment and records, and maybe see a trend? Or maybe not. I don't follow competitive shoots at all, so I don't know if pertinent data could be mined from those record books or not. [/QUOTE]
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