VLD chamber or no?

The OP can certainly order the VLD chamber cut barrel if he wants to. Personally I'd check what the COAL is to seat to the lands and then go from there. We're only talking shooting out to 600 yards. I'm taking most of my factory barrels to well over that. So to each his own.
 
Thanks everyone. Just a little back story on the rifle I'm wanting to rebarrel. The mdl 16 was going to be my light weight deer rifle. For whatever reason it never shot well from new, I tried a bunch of different powders and bullets and it just wouldn't shoot. it averaged about 3" at 100 yards. Savage rebarreled it and it was better, but still only 1 1/2" at 100. So, I bought and installed a Shaw sporter weight barrel, again 1 1/2" and it heated up really fast. After two shots it was a guess where the next rounds would go. And it's a copper mine, even after 100 rounds. The last time it was out the coppering was horrible after only 17 rounds. It's been sitting in the safe now for several years as I've screwed together a LH Savage with a Shilen SS barrel that'll shoot tiny groups. It's my deer rifle now.

I've thought about rebarreling the mdl 16 several times over the years, just haven't done it. Now I have come into some Lapua 260 brass that I hate to waste on a deer rifle. So, I'm planning on buying a heavy 26" Shilen 1-8 twist. Having never used (or needed) VLD bullets I thought I'd ask here for opinions.

Please pardon my ignorance when it comes to the chamber differences and applications for them. The rifle will be just what I've stated, a fun rifle. At 65 I'm not interested in getting serious about anything. If I can get by without a VLD chamber great, if I need it, no big deal I'll order the barrel with it.

Thanks, Justin
 
My brain is a little foggy today, but this seems backwards.
A secant ogive protrudes further through a given datum, than a tangent ogive.
With this, you have to deepen seater plugs to keep VLD meplats from bottoming, because a secant nose goes further into a tangent seater plug datum.

Why would they lengthen a throat for a secant ogive?
Seems like land contact with reasonable seated bearing, for a VLD, would require a shorter throat (not longer).
 
Mikecr said:
My brain is a little foggy today, but this seems backwards.
A secant ogive protrudes further through a given datum, than a tangent ogive.
With this, you have to deepen seater plugs to keep VLD meplats from bottoming, because a secant nose goes further into a tangent seater plug datum.

Why would they lengthen a throat for a secant ogive?
Seems like land contact with reasonable seated bearing, for a VLD, would require a shorter throat (not longer).
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Seems a bit of a misnomer to me as well,

Especially when the could have called it a 260 'SUPER' AI 🥳🤣🤣
 
Before you decide, I would look at a 243 Winchester, a 7 twist barrel and this bullet...........

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It will be a single shot rifle, but for target shooting at 600 or way beyond, you really don't need a repeater.
 
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