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Rifles, Reloading, Optics, Equipment
Rifles, Bullets, Barrels & Ballistics
are carbon fiber barrels the wave of the future?
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<blockquote data-quote="Trey1096" data-source="post: 1977826" data-attributes="member: 113007"><p>When they remove material to spiral flute a barrel, it reduces the effective diameter of the barrel to the diameter at the base of the flutes. This means the stiffness is the same as barrel with a diameter equal to that at the base of the flutes, except that it has all that wasted flute material.</p><p></p><p>A straight fluted barrel is different. Since the flutes are straight, they can transmit the extreme fiber stress down the barrel length in that axis. The effective diameter of a straight fluted barrel is less than the original diameter, but greater than the diameter at the base of the flutes.</p><p></p><p>Hope that makes sense.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Trey1096, post: 1977826, member: 113007"] When they remove material to spiral flute a barrel, it reduces the effective diameter of the barrel to the diameter at the base of the flutes. This means the stiffness is the same as barrel with a diameter equal to that at the base of the flutes, except that it has all that wasted flute material. A straight fluted barrel is different. Since the flutes are straight, they can transmit the extreme fiber stress down the barrel length in that axis. The effective diameter of a straight fluted barrel is less than the original diameter, but greater than the diameter at the base of the flutes. Hope that makes sense. [/QUOTE]
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