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The Ultimate Light Weight Sheep Hunting Rifle - What Is It?
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<blockquote data-quote="coyotezapper" data-source="post: 398498" data-attributes="member: 20438"><p>You can expect a 5-7% velocity increase with the Ackley 40 degree cases. Added benefits are reduced bolt thrust, longer case life as the straighter/less tapered case has less brass flow(less sizing) and case efficiency is off the charts meaning you get a lot of performance with minimal powder. The only thing I don't like doing is fireforming cases. If you have a varmint round it is no big deal as you can fireform while shooting praire dogs etc. But I hate firing round after round down the barrel in big game rifles for no reason other than maybe working on your shooting technique. Field shooting practice is where I do most of my fireforming. A little slow but I try not to heat up the barrel much. The rifle came from Remington weighing 5.25 pounds. (their newer ones weigh more) I used the same contour barrel when changing it so nothing changed there. The scope weighs 9 ounces and the rings/bases I am not sure. I would guess that the rifle with scope/rings/bases and sling is 6.5 lbs. It is an absolute joy to carry. It is important to shoot these light rifles in hunting situations to get used to how they shoot off of packs/sticks etc. It is a little different from a heavier rifle. I think this is why the newer remington titanium rifles are now heavier although I think that their decision was based on the larger/faster calibers being tough to shoot and not so much the 308 case family of cartridges.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="coyotezapper, post: 398498, member: 20438"] You can expect a 5-7% velocity increase with the Ackley 40 degree cases. Added benefits are reduced bolt thrust, longer case life as the straighter/less tapered case has less brass flow(less sizing) and case efficiency is off the charts meaning you get a lot of performance with minimal powder. The only thing I don't like doing is fireforming cases. If you have a varmint round it is no big deal as you can fireform while shooting praire dogs etc. But I hate firing round after round down the barrel in big game rifles for no reason other than maybe working on your shooting technique. Field shooting practice is where I do most of my fireforming. A little slow but I try not to heat up the barrel much. The rifle came from Remington weighing 5.25 pounds. (their newer ones weigh more) I used the same contour barrel when changing it so nothing changed there. The scope weighs 9 ounces and the rings/bases I am not sure. I would guess that the rifle with scope/rings/bases and sling is 6.5 lbs. It is an absolute joy to carry. It is important to shoot these light rifles in hunting situations to get used to how they shoot off of packs/sticks etc. It is a little different from a heavier rifle. I think this is why the newer remington titanium rifles are now heavier although I think that their decision was based on the larger/faster calibers being tough to shoot and not so much the 308 case family of cartridges. [/QUOTE]
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