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Factory barrels stringing shots when heated?
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<blockquote data-quote="Rick Richard" data-source="post: 1122424" data-attributes="member: 75895"><p>Accuracy is defiantly effected by material stresses (metal), heat from firing, material thickness and machining tolerances. This is not considering other factors such as undo pressure points and the shooter. </p><p></p><p>Just like your factory barrel, accuracy does get effected by heat build up when shooting a custom barrel. However, the accuracy in most cases will not be as significant as in the factory barrel due to more consistent stresses in the metal and tighter matching tolerances. </p><p></p><p>Larger diameter barrels heat up slower (relative term) and therefore a few more rounds can be fired before accuracy is significantly affected. However, heavy adds more weight if it is a hunting rifle. </p><p></p><p>As for as shooting with factory or customs, I wait a couple of minutes before I fire the next round or until I can feel a significant change in the temp. I also only fire 3 shot groups since most of the time I am shooting for best accuracy. I believe in a hunting situation more than three shots would not be needed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rick Richard, post: 1122424, member: 75895"] Accuracy is defiantly effected by material stresses (metal), heat from firing, material thickness and machining tolerances. This is not considering other factors such as undo pressure points and the shooter. Just like your factory barrel, accuracy does get effected by heat build up when shooting a custom barrel. However, the accuracy in most cases will not be as significant as in the factory barrel due to more consistent stresses in the metal and tighter matching tolerances. Larger diameter barrels heat up slower (relative term) and therefore a few more rounds can be fired before accuracy is significantly affected. However, heavy adds more weight if it is a hunting rifle. As for as shooting with factory or customs, I wait a couple of minutes before I fire the next round or until I can feel a significant change in the temp. I also only fire 3 shot groups since most of the time I am shooting for best accuracy. I believe in a hunting situation more than three shots would not be needed. [/QUOTE]
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