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A barrel that may be shot out?
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<blockquote data-quote="comfisherman" data-source="post: 2672542" data-attributes="member: 8394"><p>I'm grateful y'all more experienced people are putting this out there.</p><p></p><p>About 10 years ago a friend of mine wanted to build a custom rifle as he was about to have kids and knew that he'd still be able to hunt from time to time but was less likely to have the money for that kind of deal. He loved my hot rod cartridges but the internet scared him away from "barrel burners" and he ended up with a real milk toast mild round. At any rate he built a beautiful rifle and we worked up some loads, we settled on a usable serviceable load probably 100 rounds into the barrel. It just kind of happened into the Perfect combo really quickly and took very little work. I bet you in the first year of ownership he had 200 rounds to the barrel between range sessions workload up and hunting. </p><p></p><p>Fast forward 10 years and he calls me out of the blue asking about one of these new Hot Rod 6.5 Weatherby cartridges. There's one of the local gun shop he's salivating over, turns out in a decade of every other year hunts his current rifle still hasn't broke 300 rounds. Even the aforementioned 7 Allen magnum would see the average hunter through the casket door.... but give him Ferrari like ballistic performances when it does escape the safe.</p><p></p><p>If he was shooting prs every other weekend that's a whole nother story.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Had he gone with a 6.5 or 7 rum back then he'd still be money ahead on the cost of 2x guns.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="comfisherman, post: 2672542, member: 8394"] I'm grateful y'all more experienced people are putting this out there. About 10 years ago a friend of mine wanted to build a custom rifle as he was about to have kids and knew that he'd still be able to hunt from time to time but was less likely to have the money for that kind of deal. He loved my hot rod cartridges but the internet scared him away from "barrel burners" and he ended up with a real milk toast mild round. At any rate he built a beautiful rifle and we worked up some loads, we settled on a usable serviceable load probably 100 rounds into the barrel. It just kind of happened into the Perfect combo really quickly and took very little work. I bet you in the first year of ownership he had 200 rounds to the barrel between range sessions workload up and hunting. Fast forward 10 years and he calls me out of the blue asking about one of these new Hot Rod 6.5 Weatherby cartridges. There's one of the local gun shop he's salivating over, turns out in a decade of every other year hunts his current rifle still hasn't broke 300 rounds. Even the aforementioned 7 Allen magnum would see the average hunter through the casket door.... but give him Ferrari like ballistic performances when it does escape the safe. If he was shooting prs every other weekend that's a whole nother story. Had he gone with a 6.5 or 7 rum back then he'd still be money ahead on the cost of 2x guns. [/QUOTE]
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