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Worn barrels: resell or recycle?
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<blockquote data-quote="Bang4theBuck" data-source="post: 2306182" data-attributes="member: 73596"><p>I am honestly surprised by how many guys just get discard their high mileage barrels. I happen to think that once I find a bullet that the barrel likes, there is significant time and component cost saved by not having to experiment with finding what the barrel likes. Here is one recent example of what I did. Full disclosure....I am a pretty decent albeit recreational shooter, and don't compete often, or seriously. I took a shilen Select match savage thread pattern barrel chambered in 243 win with 1700+ rds on it, and had it shortened on the chamber end by about .900" , rethreaded, and chambered in a 6mm Dasher. I screwed that barrel with barrel nut into a Big Horn TL3, and she is a sub 3/8 shooter. I already knew that the barrel.liled the 105 bergers, and so does a dasher typically. So, It was a 50-60 rd load development. I'm $250 total into taking a 'shot out' 243 barrel and making it a 6mm Dasher, plus a couple hundred for the new brass, a d I'm having a ball with it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bang4theBuck, post: 2306182, member: 73596"] I am honestly surprised by how many guys just get discard their high mileage barrels. I happen to think that once I find a bullet that the barrel likes, there is significant time and component cost saved by not having to experiment with finding what the barrel likes. Here is one recent example of what I did. Full disclosure....I am a pretty decent albeit recreational shooter, and don't compete often, or seriously. I took a shilen Select match savage thread pattern barrel chambered in 243 win with 1700+ rds on it, and had it shortened on the chamber end by about .900" , rethreaded, and chambered in a 6mm Dasher. I screwed that barrel with barrel nut into a Big Horn TL3, and she is a sub 3/8 shooter. I already knew that the barrel.liled the 105 bergers, and so does a dasher typically. So, It was a 50-60 rd load development. I'm $250 total into taking a 'shot out' 243 barrel and making it a 6mm Dasher, plus a couple hundred for the new brass, a d I'm having a ball with it. [/QUOTE]
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