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<blockquote data-quote="R. Cram" data-source="post: 2762769" data-attributes="member: 116633"><p>as to your question about length, I put a xcaliber on my highpower rifle mostly because I found a very good buy on some, I put one on my rpr and chambered it in 260 because I own the reamer and have been shooting 260 for 25 years in highpower and over 20,000 rnds so I can guess what will probably shoot and really don't do any load development , I take it to a match and if it doesn't shoot well I tweak a little untill it does. I took that xcaliber to a match and the first 20 shots out of produced a 200 score with 17x's the highest score I have ever shot the next 20 were with a different powder and the score was identical 200x17 so I don't think it was a fluke. the barrel was 27 inches long, as long as I could keep it and the electrinic target scoring device said I averaged 1925 fps at the range we were shooting, 600yds. I also took another rpr whose factory barrel I put a 6.5x284 reamer into but the barre is only 24 inches long. Thar rifle shot well also 200x7 but not any where as good as the xcaliber did but the velocity was average 1950 fps at 600 so I've got a barrel burner cartridge not giving any better balistics then a much gentler cartridge I was very dissapointed in the 6.5x284, I know all the guys using them at 1000 yds used 30 inch barrels and at long range it is not smart to give up velocity it is your freind. Especially if you are going to use a cartridge with a high ratio of powder to caliber it would not be smart to handicap it by shortening the barrel. I just took an old m54 winchester and put a 28 inch barrel in 6.5x284 and nobody I have handed it to has said anything was strange when I asked. Short barrels are a foolish fashion statement</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="R. Cram, post: 2762769, member: 116633"] as to your question about length, I put a xcaliber on my highpower rifle mostly because I found a very good buy on some, I put one on my rpr and chambered it in 260 because I own the reamer and have been shooting 260 for 25 years in highpower and over 20,000 rnds so I can guess what will probably shoot and really don't do any load development , I take it to a match and if it doesn't shoot well I tweak a little untill it does. I took that xcaliber to a match and the first 20 shots out of produced a 200 score with 17x's the highest score I have ever shot the next 20 were with a different powder and the score was identical 200x17 so I don't think it was a fluke. the barrel was 27 inches long, as long as I could keep it and the electrinic target scoring device said I averaged 1925 fps at the range we were shooting, 600yds. I also took another rpr whose factory barrel I put a 6.5x284 reamer into but the barre is only 24 inches long. Thar rifle shot well also 200x7 but not any where as good as the xcaliber did but the velocity was average 1950 fps at 600 so I've got a barrel burner cartridge not giving any better balistics then a much gentler cartridge I was very dissapointed in the 6.5x284, I know all the guys using them at 1000 yds used 30 inch barrels and at long range it is not smart to give up velocity it is your freind. Especially if you are going to use a cartridge with a high ratio of powder to caliber it would not be smart to handicap it by shortening the barrel. I just took an old m54 winchester and put a 28 inch barrel in 6.5x284 and nobody I have handed it to has said anything was strange when I asked. Short barrels are a foolish fashion statement [/QUOTE]
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