PPC barrel Lenght

[JamesinAsheville]

What is the optimum barrel length for a 6 ppc?

 

[David Conder]

If you shoot registered matches an have to make weight hope this helps

 

[Pete Wass]

Google " Secrets of the Huston Warehouse" and read it all a couple of times.

 

[BJ44BJ]

I've seen various length barrels shoot...I don't think there's a magic length. Gun balance may be a more important consideration. Just my opinion.

 

[steve210]

As long as you can make it and still make weight is my personal opinion. It may well be worth what you paid for it also, nothing!

 

[ELR LVR]

What is the optimum barrel length for a 6 ppc?

Supposedly
According to a few test and trials
for short range anyhow
21"-21.75" is the magic sweet sport
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I read that some 20 yrs ago after some serious benchresters cut a few barrel down maybe 1 inch or 1/2 inch at a time and tested and tested
right in the 21"-21.75" range seemed to more consistently shoot best across the board
I think most people just went with 21" from then on
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After reading that I conducted the same test on a Rem 700 223 I had
Interestingly - it did shoot best at 21" groups tightened up slightly and held
once I got down to 20" - grouping started opening back up
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I think this is the kind of thing that helps stack the cards in your favor slightly
but isn't a guarantee
I have 30" barrel guns that shoot Benchrest tight groups
But maybe not "AS Consistently " as it would at 21"
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the shorter barrel is stiffer, which contributes more to inherent accuracy
I would suggest that once getting below 21" - Velocity goes to crap so don't cut below that number
I Would personally go with 22"
This leaves a little wiggle room for Re-Crowning in the future if need be

 

[David Conder]

I just chamber a 6ppc he wanted it as long I could get out of
250 straight at 32inchs long it came out at 30inches it is for unlimited class

 

[AckleymanII]

I had several Unturned blanks on Hall M's and Panda's cut at 28", and they were incredible shooters. You end up putting weight in the butt for balance with these long tubes. I quit competition and shoot for fun, and win every match! Hee Hee! When you put one of Mike Ezel's tuners on one of these rigs, get ready to shoot more zeros than you have ever shot in your life!

 

[gunsandgunsmithing]

I've seen various length barrels shoot...I don't think there's a magic length. Gun balance may be a more important consideration. Just my opinion.

^^^^This^^^^ is way more important to accuracy than 50-100fps ever will be. There is NO magical length. That's mythology. Possibly my best ever bbl, I set back several times, and was 18.5" long when I made it a short tomato stake. It always shot great for me and there's more to that story that would surprise a lot of people. I bought it for a fire forming bbl, chambered it up in a 3 Jaw(the first time). It won lots of fake wood just like that! I think it was 23" long the first time. Since all I ever did going forward was short setbacks to freshen it up, I never did anything special with chambering it up because the reamer was always gonna follow the existing chamber. It always shot! Go figure!

There's more! I was the 3rd owner of that bbl and both previous owners said the bbl wasn't competitive!
Phfft! It won and it won a lot of matches, including matches against the last owner! Again, GO FIGURE!

That bbl is THE bbl that sent me over the edge on tuners too, fwiw. There's more than length, speed and balance to a truly great shooting rifle. Tune is incredibly important if you're gonna win at a high level. The thing that turned me to tuners with this one was that I had already been on the fence about them for a while and that the previous TWO owners of this bbl both said it wouldn't shoot. I'd just have to disagree with them is all. It shot real good! I'd take a pile just like it.

It doesn't matter how long the bbl is if ya can't make weight and I'm not sure that I have ever found longer bbls to shoot better in anything. Balance on the other hand, is a different story. A good handling rifle is one big factor in why some guns are truly special, while others are average.

 

[David Conder]

I chambered a barrel for me in 6ppc 1.450 at 26 inch’s when I cleaned the barrel after chambering when the patch passed through the barrel before it got tighter at the crown that barrel is a really great barrel it shoot better ever time I shoot it I have about 150 rounds through it look forward to the NBRSA season