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Carbon Six Barrel Review
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<blockquote data-quote="Shooter264" data-source="post: 1417345" data-attributes="member: 23746"><p>If you do any searches on the internet on these barrels, very little information is available. I happened to come across one of these barrels for a very good price so I thought I'd give it a shot. I put together a 6.5 Creedmoor for my son for his 14th birthday using the Carbon Six barrel as well as some other parts I had laying around. The build consisted of a blueprinted 700 Remington, timney trigger, McMillian varmint edge stock, leupold VX5, and The Carbon Six barrel. Rifle came in right at 7lbs 10 ounces complete. I still need to Bush the bolt so I can run the lapua srp brass so until then I figured I'd just shoot some factory ammo through it to get the bbl broke in and see how it would group. I fired one round and cleaned for 3 rounds. After the third round, I was no longer getting any copper out of the bbl. The breakin on this bbl was on par with any Proof barrel I have owned. I then took it to the range using Hornady Precision Hunter 143 Eldx to get it on paper and to see how it would group. To be completely honest, I was expecting it to be a .75-1moa gun. I was completely shocked to find out that every group I shot was well under a .5 moa. After shooting 3 groups of 3 and 1 round to get it on paper, the biggest group measured .385" center to center. The smallest was .280". I took the rifle home and cleaned it after 10 rounds and the rifle showed no signs of copper. Although this review may be a little premature since the rifle only has 13 rounds fired through it, I am impressed with these barrels for the money. Will I quit buying Proofs and switch to Carbon Six? Probably not, but for the budget minded builder that wants a carbon barrel, I think this is a very viable option. I will probably update this thread as time goes on after I get the bolt bushed and start loading for this gun.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Shooter264, post: 1417345, member: 23746"] If you do any searches on the internet on these barrels, very little information is available. I happened to come across one of these barrels for a very good price so I thought I’d give it a shot. I put together a 6.5 Creedmoor for my son for his 14th birthday using the Carbon Six barrel as well as some other parts I had laying around. The build consisted of a blueprinted 700 Remington, timney trigger, McMillian varmint edge stock, leupold VX5, and The Carbon Six barrel. Rifle came in right at 7lbs 10 ounces complete. I still need to Bush the bolt so I can run the lapua srp brass so until then I figured I’d just shoot some factory ammo through it to get the bbl broke in and see how it would group. I fired one round and cleaned for 3 rounds. After the third round, I was no longer getting any copper out of the bbl. The breakin on this bbl was on par with any Proof barrel I have owned. I then took it to the range using Hornady Precision Hunter 143 Eldx to get it on paper and to see how it would group. To be completely honest, I was expecting it to be a .75-1moa gun. I was completely shocked to find out that every group I shot was well under a .5 moa. After shooting 3 groups of 3 and 1 round to get it on paper, the biggest group measured .385” center to center. The smallest was .280”. I took the rifle home and cleaned it after 10 rounds and the rifle showed no signs of copper. Although this review may be a little premature since the rifle only has 13 rounds fired through it, I am impressed with these barrels for the money. Will I quit buying Proofs and switch to Carbon Six? Probably not, but for the budget minded builder that wants a carbon barrel, I think this is a very viable option. I will probably update this thread as time goes on after I get the bolt bushed and start loading for this gun. [/QUOTE]
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