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5 R canted land barrels.
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<blockquote data-quote="goodgrouper" data-source="post: 110388" data-attributes="member: 2852"><p>[ QUOTE ]</p><p> Barret (Boots) Obermeyer came up with his 5R rifling design soon after Sierra Bullets introduced their 7mm 168-gr. HPMK bullet </p><p></p><p>[/ QUOTE ] </p><p></p><p></p><p>No offense to Boots but saying he came up with the idea of canted rifling is wrong. To say he was the first American to successfully adapt the idea to solve a thin skinned bullet problem would be more correct. He actually "borrowed" the idea from the Russians (which is what the R stands for in 5R) who were making barrels in this manner as early as WWII and possibly even earlier. Records of production were unfortunately destoyed in the Nazi battles for Russian ground.</p><p></p><p>I do agree with you that they are good barrels and so are conventional rifled custom barrels if done properly.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="goodgrouper, post: 110388, member: 2852"] [ QUOTE ] Barret (Boots) Obermeyer came up with his 5R rifling design soon after Sierra Bullets introduced their 7mm 168-gr. HPMK bullet [/ QUOTE ] No offense to Boots but saying he came up with the idea of canted rifling is wrong. To say he was the first American to successfully adapt the idea to solve a thin skinned bullet problem would be more correct. He actually "borrowed" the idea from the Russians (which is what the R stands for in 5R) who were making barrels in this manner as early as WWII and possibly even earlier. Records of production were unfortunately destoyed in the Nazi battles for Russian ground. I do agree with you that they are good barrels and so are conventional rifled custom barrels if done properly. [/QUOTE]
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