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Hillbilly Custom Rifle

slewis12

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I finally got my new 300RUM HB rifle and shot it while I was home from work overseas talk about tack driver at 5 and 600 yards with nosler etip and RL25 hand loads at 3280 FPS on the chrony. Ill be ordering a few more from him.
 

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The next build will be really special 30-378 in a ruger no. 1 falling block with 27 1/2 inch barrel havent settle on a maker leaning towards bartlien again then add custom muzzle brake. Ill probably sit a leupold vx6 7x42x56 the one in the pic got the 4x24x50
 
Nice rifle. Do you happen to know what twist are you using ?

Going to the 30-378 will be faster, but is enough to have another 30 cal ? Just asking. Not that many bullets are rated for faster than 3400 fps.
 
Nathan builds awesome rifles. We oogled over them and talked with him for a while at the Harrisburg outdoor show. He had a customers 280AI I absolutely fell in love with. Just can't afford one like that yet.
 
Nathan builds awesome rifles. We oogled over them and talked with him for a while at the Harrisburg outdoor show. He had a customers 280AI I absolutely fell in love with. Just can't afford one like that yet.

I also talked to Nathan for about 45 minutes at the Outdoor Show. Seemed like a really nice guy and that 280AI did look sweet.
 
any copper alloy bullet or a good bonded bullet will handle that velocity and more, the barnes, accubond, and sirocco 2's can handle more than what most people are willing to push them to just check out CBJ Precision Engineered Rifles, Inc. - Home formerly know as weatherbyman they can really push that monster to even higher. A 1 in 10 twist is the recommended twist now rifling style thats an open ended deal with a few choise Bartlien suggests the 5R style I haven't done alot of research but the little i have it sounds good but i will probably spend several weeks reading up on every style of rifling out there i do know i prefer cut rifle vs an pull or push button rifling but the my preference nothing to scientific I'm a engineer so when i read the processes cut rifling to me seems more of a controlable process vs yanking or shove a button cutter down a barrel and cetting the lands lets you play with land depth more unless you buy a new custom button i would think but once again my personal thoughts and preference based on my research. Remember opinions and a-holes have one thing in common every one has one i just happen to have 1 of each lol.
 
When you cut the outside of a barrel on a heavy duty lathe with extra barrel support locations, it is pretty easy to imagine that this machining is very tight.

Even the best tooling starts to flex once you get more than 5 or 6 diameters inside of a hole. I am not a machinist, but watching some of them work, it looks like even a high end, large diameter reamer is still largely following the original drilled hole, just cleaning it up. It seems like this would be largely true regardless of using a button or machined rifling (but that is a guess on my part)

I am always amazed that the barrel making process works so well. Obviously, multiple companies have been very successful making barrels using several methods.

I suspect that the button rifling process is somewhat similar to roll form tapping. The cold formed steel actually improves in yield strength and wear resistance from the deformation process, while a cutting thread process does not.


Wikipedia.org has a good article on it.
 
I talked to him saterday at sportsman show dose very nice work down to earth
Any one have him build a 25 cal for yea
 


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