Question For The Competition Guys

[Sandstorm]

Dave.

Right there wirh you on that one Dave

 

[ktm571]

Gee, I thought it was a rather simple question. My intent was to find out after a competition shooter installs a premium barrel, (Krieger, Bartlein, Brux, etc.) on his match action, at what point (number of rounds) is he confident that his barrel is ready for competition. I wasn't concerned with barrel maker, as I would assume if you are seriously competing you are using only a top quality barrel. Caliber, type of match and all the other caveats doesn't apply to my question as to me, it doesn't matter what I'm shooting or at what level.

If you screw a new Krieger barrel into your rig you should know from past experience that it will take X amount of rounds to get it to the point you can confidently go to the firing line and be competitive. My question really was what is the X amount of rounds do you anticipate it taking to make your barrel compete.

BTW, I am not a competitive shooIter. I only compete against myself.

100-120-140 rds until the velocity stabilizes in a cut, hand lapped, premium barrel. Some say the SD decreases and stabilizes over this time too. I don't shoot at a piece of paper or with a chronograph until I have 120 thru a new barrel. Just passed 120 rds on my new barrel for this season. Used up crap powder, factory 2nd bullets and my least favorite primers. Chrono and load testing with good components to follow.

 

[ktm571]

100-120-140 rds until the velocity stabilizes in a cut, hand lapped, premium barrel. Some say the SD decreases and stabilizes over this time too. I don't shoot at a piece of paper or with a chronograph until I have 120 thru a new barrel. Just passed 120 rds on my new barrel for this season. Used up crap powder, factory 2nd bullets and my least favorite primers. Chrono and load testing with good components to follow.

I'll have a decent match load by 175 rds. Will tune more after that because I can't help myself.