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<blockquote data-quote="winmagman" data-source="post: 1048708" data-attributes="member: 1193"><p>J E</p><p></p><p>The barrel I'm looking to do is a Broughton chambered in 26 Nosler. I spoke with Tim North last week to get his thoughts on Meloniting one of his barrels. He had no problem with it and he was very helpful with how to break in and clean a barrel before shipping it off.</p><p></p><p>The following is based on reading about everything I can find on this topic in an effort to make a well informed decision.</p><p></p><p>From what I can find it seems that there is no change in accuracy after the treatment, if it shoots in the .1s or 10 moa before it will after, UNLESS things go bad and that can happen. Don't really know why things go bad but there are reports out there of barrels not responding well to being treated.</p><p></p><p>The reports on wear have all been positive, but no one can say if they get 30% more barrel life of 80% more, just that they are getting better barrel life/less barrel wear.</p><p></p><p>As far as rechambering or recrowning goes, there are people that say the can do work on treated barrels with carbide tooling. I don't personally know one way or the other, but bet it would not be a treat to do.</p><p></p><p>I'm leaning strongly towards having mine done. I do need to see good accuracy potential during break in first, which might be tough job since I'd like to keep the round count at 25 or less before treatment. Meloniting a barrel with to much throat wear/firecracking is said to have very negative effects.</p><p></p><p>Chris</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="winmagman, post: 1048708, member: 1193"] J E The barrel I'm looking to do is a Broughton chambered in 26 Nosler. I spoke with Tim North last week to get his thoughts on Meloniting one of his barrels. He had no problem with it and he was very helpful with how to break in and clean a barrel before shipping it off. The following is based on reading about everything I can find on this topic in an effort to make a well informed decision. From what I can find it seems that there is no change in accuracy after the treatment, if it shoots in the .1s or 10 moa before it will after, UNLESS things go bad and that can happen. Don't really know why things go bad but there are reports out there of barrels not responding well to being treated. The reports on wear have all been positive, but no one can say if they get 30% more barrel life of 80% more, just that they are getting better barrel life/less barrel wear. As far as rechambering or recrowning goes, there are people that say the can do work on treated barrels with carbide tooling. I don't personally know one way or the other, but bet it would not be a treat to do. I'm leaning strongly towards having mine done. I do need to see good accuracy potential during break in first, which might be tough job since I'd like to keep the round count at 25 or less before treatment. Meloniting a barrel with to much throat wear/firecracking is said to have very negative effects. Chris [/QUOTE]
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