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Pros and Cons carbon fiber barrel vs steel barrel
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<blockquote data-quote="Pdvdh" data-source="post: 2671163" data-attributes="member: 4191"><p>Here's what Alex Wheeler posted on another Forum. So here's another well experienced guy whose experiences match my own, and that of another well informed contact of mine: </p><p></p><p>"<em>Personally I can't wait for the carbon trend to pass. I chamber a lot of them and while most of them shoot well, the rejection rate is off the charts compared to steel. Even though I chamber probably 10 to one steel to carbon, at the end of the year there will be far more problems with carbons than steel. In general, it's rare to get a bad steel barrel, if even one all year. And I'm chambering many hundreds every year. It's most disappointing to me because I hate building a rifle that someone struggles with. I think if you plan things out both ways, steel vs carbon you can get to a similar weight. Keep in mind a skinny steel barrel that weighs as much as a carbon is still all steel. I did a test a few years ago. Stiffness vs weight. I pulled out a bunch of barrels and supported them by the shank in the same place and hung a weight the same distance out from the breach and measured deflection. Now these were Proofs back then. I found that the defection of an equal weight carbon barrel was the same as an equal weight steel. If memory serves, a #3 fluted was as stiff as a Sendero light. I think they both weighted about 3.5 pounds. So there is no gain at all. The wrapping process can only induces stress, it can't reduce it. Just something to chew on. I don't mind chambering them, I always have them here getting chambered. Some guys really like them and I do not try to talk them out of them. I'm just so disappointed when someone struggles with one of my rifles.</em>"</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Pdvdh, post: 2671163, member: 4191"] Here's what Alex Wheeler posted on another Forum. So here's another well experienced guy whose experiences match my own, and that of another well informed contact of mine: "[I]Personally I can't wait for the carbon trend to pass. I chamber a lot of them and while most of them shoot well, the rejection rate is off the charts compared to steel. Even though I chamber probably 10 to one steel to carbon, at the end of the year there will be far more problems with carbons than steel. In general, it's rare to get a bad steel barrel, if even one all year. And I'm chambering many hundreds every year. It's most disappointing to me because I hate building a rifle that someone struggles with. I think if you plan things out both ways, steel vs carbon you can get to a similar weight. Keep in mind a skinny steel barrel that weighs as much as a carbon is still all steel. I did a test a few years ago. Stiffness vs weight. I pulled out a bunch of barrels and supported them by the shank in the same place and hung a weight the same distance out from the breach and measured deflection. Now these were Proofs back then. I found that the defection of an equal weight carbon barrel was the same as an equal weight steel. If memory serves, a #3 fluted was as stiff as a Sendero light. I think they both weighted about 3.5 pounds. So there is no gain at all. The wrapping process can only induces stress, it can't reduce it. Just something to chew on. I don't mind chambering them, I always have them here getting chambered. Some guys really like them and I do not try to talk them out of them. I'm just so disappointed when someone struggles with one of my rifles.[/I]" [/QUOTE]
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