Barrel Life

[kevinbear]

My dream Hornet is a Anschutz 1730, looks just like a 1712. You could use this for your heavy gun.
http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewIt ... =138363188

[thskeer]

I have a 1730 HB that is like new, and I LOVE IT! We have a 200 yd reduced HP range in Manassas (malinois are you still coming?) that I think the 6BR would be KING on. Too bad I'm not in a position to rebarrel yet....

[kevinbear]

What's your favorite Hornet load?
Mine is CCI br sr primer
11.2 gr. H110
40 gr. Hornady V- Max
2834 fps
The Hornet is a soild 250 yd cartridge with this load on nearly anything from those little picket pin ground squirrels to head shots on turkeys to coyotes.
That load is tolerent of the short seating depth required by the Ruger 77 rotary magazines.

[malinois]

I had not given the Anschultz any concideration because those Anschultz hornets are very pricey and the cooper is a lot cheaper with a S/S match barrel already installed and its a single shot just like my smallbore rifle which i prefer its just me....I want to copy my small and big bore guns and of course it does a bang up job on the small varmints too...an added bonus....Yes I am still comming to Fairfax..Is the address posted on the NRA match listing the address for the range I am shooting the Smallbore match.

[Innocent]

thskeer....you going to have your hands full if malinios shows up in VA....

Innocent

[malinois]

Well thats only if he has a supply of Nassau Royale, its great suff ....

[SPRTN308]

Well thats only if he has a supply of Nassau Royale, its great suff ....

Holy crap, someone else who loves this stuff? It's damn near impossible to get it up here in Canada these days. Something about distribution. I don't know. I never know where to look for it when I'm in the US.

[malinois]

The reason the supply is short is it dosent make it pass Mary and Me down here......lol

[Innocent]

sprtn308....my supply was to get it when I was over there..haven't been over in a few years, the bug licenses have gotten outrageous and the restrictions on spear fishing are not much better, so there isn't as much attraction to go over. I'll look here at Applejacks in Denver and see if they have any.

Innocent Mary

[malinois]

good luck mary....

[drover]

In my experience I have found that the 243 and 260 both start to lose the "gilt edge" accuracy at about 1500 rounds, when I was shooting 7/08 the went about 2000 or slightly over.

As Jerry G. said - it is all about heat, heat is the killer of barrels and it has to be an accepted part of the game that your barrels are going to get hot. But, compared to the costs of everything else in shooting high-power barrels are cheap. Generally for a major match you will spend enough for the ammo components, entry fee, food, motel, and travel that you could buy a new barrel and more than likely had a good start on having it chambered and fitted.

But to get back to the subject, I notice that the accuracy begins to deteriorate at the longer ranges. It is generally some turkey misses that I thought should have been there and then it begins to show up on rams (the only reason it takes longer to show up on rams is because they are more forgiving because of their shape, usually the onset of ram misses are misread as a missed condition rather than blaming the barrel).

If you want a cartridge that is easy on barrels, knocks rams over consistently, is realatively inexpensive to reload, and whose barrels last for ages then go to a 7 BR. But, if you shoot in windy conditions you better be a good wind reader because they are slow enough that the wind drift will kill you if you are not.

drover

[Innocent]

Malinios...until you get in what I left in and that was only the first of the year...18F and several inches of snow 8 days ago.


I'll stick to the cold Florida or at least some where south of Tropic of Cancer.... and a high yesterday of 17C.

Innocent M