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16"-18" full bull barrel idea
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<blockquote data-quote="Cold Trigger Finger" data-source="post: 1007840" data-attributes="member: 56732"><p>Since my favorite rifles are less than 20" barrelled. I think you have a good idea. I recently chopped the 26" barrel on my 6.5 Creedmoor to 18.6" finished length. For my purposes I didn't loose anything but gained a lot of handiness. I really liked it before. Now I just love the thing. It still prints groups in the .3s . Occasionally better if I'm really on my game. It still weighs around 11 lbs all up without a bipod on it. Tho I lost some velocity I'm still around 2600 fps with 140 gr class bullets. And 2700 fps with 130s. One guide/ trapper in the area spends his winters with a Ruger M77 mk2 stainless Compact in 223 and has killed all kinds of fur with it up to and including big wolves and caribou. He swears by it. I think an 18" 243 would be just the ticket for what you are doing with it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cold Trigger Finger, post: 1007840, member: 56732"] Since my favorite rifles are less than 20" barrelled. I think you have a good idea. I recently chopped the 26" barrel on my 6.5 Creedmoor to 18.6" finished length. For my purposes I didn't loose anything but gained a lot of handiness. I really liked it before. Now I just love the thing. It still prints groups in the .3s . Occasionally better if I'm really on my game. It still weighs around 11 lbs all up without a bipod on it. Tho I lost some velocity I'm still around 2600 fps with 140 gr class bullets. And 2700 fps with 130s. One guide/ trapper in the area spends his winters with a Ruger M77 mk2 stainless Compact in 223 and has killed all kinds of fur with it up to and including big wolves and caribou. He swears by it. I think an 18" 243 would be just the ticket for what you are doing with it. [/QUOTE]
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