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are carbon fiber barrels the wave of the future?
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<blockquote data-quote="Tulsa Reiner" data-source="post: 1982673" data-attributes="member: 75815"><p>I can tell you from my experience with two CF barrels, one a CA rifle, and one a Gunwerks rifle, that they conduct heat very poorly. Meaning that only after about 6 rounds, closely spaced, do they start to feel warm. At first I thouight this was great-- no hot barrel. But then I realized, the heat of the powder ignition has to be somewhere. It must be retained in the core of the barrel. So I now believe that the failure to transfer the heat is not a good thing when firing on the range. I wish I had a long temp probe to I could measure it near the dhamber for a couple of minutes after firing a round, and compare it to a steel barrel firing the same cartridge.</p><p>Has anyone done this?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tulsa Reiner, post: 1982673, member: 75815"] I can tell you from my experience with two CF barrels, one a CA rifle, and one a Gunwerks rifle, that they conduct heat very poorly. Meaning that only after about 6 rounds, closely spaced, do they start to feel warm. At first I thouight this was great-- no hot barrel. But then I realized, the heat of the powder ignition has to be somewhere. It must be retained in the core of the barrel. So I now believe that the failure to transfer the heat is not a good thing when firing on the range. I wish I had a long temp probe to I could measure it near the dhamber for a couple of minutes after firing a round, and compare it to a steel barrel firing the same cartridge. Has anyone done this? [/QUOTE]
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