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Barrel Contour vs Accuracy Potential
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<blockquote data-quote="Timber338" data-source="post: 1182213" data-attributes="member: 33822"><p>My personal experience is that any barrel contour can make for a very accurate rifle. The light rifles are obviously more challenging to shoot because of shooter error, but that is not the rifles fault.</p><p></p><p>I have owned some very light rifles with light barrel contours, the most aggressive being a 338WSM wildcat with a Pac-Nor ultralight contour. The rifle shot 1/2 MOA all day long and twice on sunday. That's not going to win any gold medals, but it's going to kill animals to that rifles lethal limit any day.</p><p></p><p>I have come to like #3 and #4 contours on hunting rifles. They have enough weight to shoot accurately, but not so much weight that they become too heavy to carry in the field.</p><p></p><p>Of course any light barrel contour is going to heat up much quicker so I limit groups to 3 shots. I have never found any reason to shoot more than 3 to prove out the accuracy of a hunting load, and once I know the load is accurate I test out the rifle at longer ranges with either the single cold bore shot or 2-shot groups. For hunting the first 1 or 2 shots are really all that matter anyways.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Timber338, post: 1182213, member: 33822"] My personal experience is that any barrel contour can make for a very accurate rifle. The light rifles are obviously more challenging to shoot because of shooter error, but that is not the rifles fault. I have owned some very light rifles with light barrel contours, the most aggressive being a 338WSM wildcat with a Pac-Nor ultralight contour. The rifle shot 1/2 MOA all day long and twice on sunday. That's not going to win any gold medals, but it's going to kill animals to that rifles lethal limit any day. I have come to like #3 and #4 contours on hunting rifles. They have enough weight to shoot accurately, but not so much weight that they become too heavy to carry in the field. Of course any light barrel contour is going to heat up much quicker so I limit groups to 3 shots. I have never found any reason to shoot more than 3 to prove out the accuracy of a hunting load, and once I know the load is accurate I test out the rifle at longer ranges with either the single cold bore shot or 2-shot groups. For hunting the first 1 or 2 shots are really all that matter anyways. [/QUOTE]
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