Short barrel, faster twist good idea?

[thefitter]

Building a 18" 7mm SAUM to shoot exclusively the Berger 7mm 180gr Hybrids. Standard barrel twist for this bullet is 1-9.

Thoughts on going with a 1-8 or 1-8.5 because of the short barrel? (HART offers a 1-8)

Thanks

 

[cba257]

18" is enough length to stabilize you may want to jump up to 1:8 to shoot other bullets. Burgers tend to be long for their weight. Seems like most will say go to the faster twist when in doubt because over stabilization is not as much of a problem as under.

 

[thefitter]

18" is enough length to stabilize you may want to jump up to 1:8 to shoot other bullets. Burgers tend to be long for their weight. Seems like most will say go to the faster twist when in doubt because over stabilization is not as much of a problem as under.

Thanks, that's exactly what I was thinking. But I always like to run things by the gurus here.