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A barrel that may be shot out?
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<blockquote data-quote="Fiftydriver" data-source="post: 2671804" data-attributes="member: 10"><p>Over the past 20 years now of selling my fire breathing monsters that most in the early days said would burn out throats before a good load could be found……. the number of rifles returned to have the barrels replaced because of proper use and burning barrels out has been 3. Now there have been 6-7 i would say returned because customers abused the rifles by over heating and continuing to shoot the rifles causing severe damage quickly. With a new barrel and listening to my warnings, all of those are to my knowledge still in service today. Total number of rifles out there, not sure off the top of my head, thousand plus easily. I am a pretty small shop for volume but 3 rifles out of over 1000 shipped is pretty low percentage if i am doing my math correctly. </p><p></p><p>to be fair, this is largely due to the fact i discuss in great detail with new or potential customers what it is they want to do with this new rifle they are interested in. About 50% of the time i would say i talk them out of one of my wildcats and into something more appropriate for what they want to do. for example, if you want to reach out to 600 yards whitetail hunting, i would recommend a completely different chambering then someone wanting to do high volume prairie dog hunting all summer long, as i would recommend something totally different for someone coming to me wanting a rifle with the ability to harvest a mature bull elk at 1500 yards….. </p><p></p><p></p><p>i feel alot of issues with rifles these days are due to improper use of said rifle as much as anything. Some need one rifle to do everything and as such, compromises must be made in many areas but if used properly as instructed, my super magnums will generally offer well over a decades use for big game hunting or even much longer for even the most serious big game hunter.</p><p></p><p>my first personal rifle in my 7mm Allen Mag i used for load development and ballistic testing which is never easy on a barrel. This rifle used a #4 fluted 27" lilja ss barrel. Used that rifle over 8 seasons to harvest 34 head of big game all with one shot kills from 340 to 980 yards out of the 7.7 lb rifle. At the end of those 8 years i had a guy ask if i would sell him that well warn rifle as he could not afford one of my full custom rifles which i had started building at that time. Told him no but i would fit a new barrel and sell the rifle to him at a VERY good price as i knew his financial situation. We did that and he used that rifle for many years with excellent results. I believe he still owns that rifle or one of his sons have it and still using it.</p><p></p><p>burnt barrel are not nearly as common as many think. Severely fouled barrels, yes, strange carbon ring build up that are difficult to remove at times, yes, thin match bullets having issues in older warn barrels yep, but most of these can be corrected with proper and sometimes specialized cleaning or a change in bullet choice.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fiftydriver, post: 2671804, member: 10"] Over the past 20 years now of selling my fire breathing monsters that most in the early days said would burn out throats before a good load could be found……. the number of rifles returned to have the barrels replaced because of proper use and burning barrels out has been 3. Now there have been 6-7 i would say returned because customers abused the rifles by over heating and continuing to shoot the rifles causing severe damage quickly. With a new barrel and listening to my warnings, all of those are to my knowledge still in service today. Total number of rifles out there, not sure off the top of my head, thousand plus easily. I am a pretty small shop for volume but 3 rifles out of over 1000 shipped is pretty low percentage if i am doing my math correctly. to be fair, this is largely due to the fact i discuss in great detail with new or potential customers what it is they want to do with this new rifle they are interested in. About 50% of the time i would say i talk them out of one of my wildcats and into something more appropriate for what they want to do. for example, if you want to reach out to 600 yards whitetail hunting, i would recommend a completely different chambering then someone wanting to do high volume prairie dog hunting all summer long, as i would recommend something totally different for someone coming to me wanting a rifle with the ability to harvest a mature bull elk at 1500 yards….. i feel alot of issues with rifles these days are due to improper use of said rifle as much as anything. Some need one rifle to do everything and as such, compromises must be made in many areas but if used properly as instructed, my super magnums will generally offer well over a decades use for big game hunting or even much longer for even the most serious big game hunter. my first personal rifle in my 7mm Allen Mag i used for load development and ballistic testing which is never easy on a barrel. This rifle used a #4 fluted 27” lilja ss barrel. Used that rifle over 8 seasons to harvest 34 head of big game all with one shot kills from 340 to 980 yards out of the 7.7 lb rifle. At the end of those 8 years i had a guy ask if i would sell him that well warn rifle as he could not afford one of my full custom rifles which i had started building at that time. Told him no but i would fit a new barrel and sell the rifle to him at a VERY good price as i knew his financial situation. We did that and he used that rifle for many years with excellent results. I believe he still owns that rifle or one of his sons have it and still using it. burnt barrel are not nearly as common as many think. Severely fouled barrels, yes, strange carbon ring build up that are difficult to remove at times, yes, thin match bullets having issues in older warn barrels yep, but most of these can be corrected with proper and sometimes specialized cleaning or a change in bullet choice. [/QUOTE]
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