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<blockquote data-quote="livetohunt" data-source="post: 2030603" data-attributes="member: 100535"><p>A lot of people like to build lightweight to mid weight long range rifles on here. Carbon barrels, Ti actions, Ti brakes, carbon stocks... there are lots of ways that you can cut weight on your rifle.</p><p></p><p>One of these ways, I hardly ever see anyone do even though Its is an easy way to cut weight off your barrel.</p><p></p><p>Take, for example, an OMR 1" carbon barrel; commonly, on a small diameter barrel someone would thread it to 1/2-28 but on a 1" barrel its probably threaded 3/4-24. If you are trying to cut weight, and go with a titanium muzzle brake, that thread option doesn't make sense. If it was my gun build I would do 1/2-28 threads. Your removing that amount of steel, and replacing it with titanium that is 45% lighter.</p><p></p><p>Easy concept, although it seems counter intuitive to someone who is making "ultralight muzzle brakes" (ya, like I do) as the brake itself would be heavier than it would be with a larger thread size.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="livetohunt, post: 2030603, member: 100535"] A lot of people like to build lightweight to mid weight long range rifles on here. Carbon barrels, Ti actions, Ti brakes, carbon stocks... there are lots of ways that you can cut weight on your rifle. One of these ways, I hardly ever see anyone do even though Its is an easy way to cut weight off your barrel. Take, for example, an OMR 1” carbon barrel; commonly, on a small diameter barrel someone would thread it to 1/2-28 but on a 1” barrel its probably threaded 3/4-24. If you are trying to cut weight, and go with a titanium muzzle brake, that thread option doesn’t make sense. If it was my gun build I would do 1/2-28 threads. Your removing that amount of steel, and replacing it with titanium that is 45% lighter. Easy concept, although it seems counter intuitive to someone who is making “ultralight muzzle brakes” (ya, like I do) as the brake itself would be heavier than it would be with a larger thread size. [/QUOTE]
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