Does anyone have any experience with a suppressor on a carbon fiber wrapped barrel?
Thanks for the input guys. Think I'll stick with fluted bartlines always worked well for me.Interesting. More reasons Id never want one.
I have a friend running a 28" Proof barrel in .338 Edge. Shoots quite well. But, when he installs his 16 oz Titanium suppressor on, the point of impact drops 7" at 100 yards. Still shoots good, but quite surprising. I witnessed this in person and it was shocking to say the least. Just some food for thought.
Your looking at about a 6 OZ savings over a fluted #5 contour by using a carbon barrel. Not much difference considering the $500 price difference between the two. Ive had 3 carbon barrels in my shop and they were the most crooked barrels I had seen. At that time I had probably looked through a 1000 or so barrels roughly. I threw them in my lathe to test for straightness. I put a deltronic pin at the muzzle and a rod at the throat. I tightened the spider chucks down finger tight so as not to bend the barrels and skew the results and indicated the pin and rod to under .0002. I then moved the rod back to the breech and discovered .008 runout. So in a distance of roughly 3" there was .008 worth of curvature in the bore. I turned the lathe on to 120 rpm and looked down the bore. Looked like a jump rope in their, lol. They got sent back to the manufacturer. If your looking for weight savings just get a fluted #5 contour. I do those in 90% of my builds for customers and every customer has sent me groups in the .2s or less moa wise.I shoot everything from 22-250 through 338 edge with a fluted rem varmint contour bartline between 26 & 30" with a can. Just curious about proof barrels for a little weight reduction on my 25-05 Ackley witch is my coyote go to.
between 26 & 30" with a can. Just curious about proof barrels for a little weight reduction on my 25-05 Ackley
Your looking at about a 6 OZ savings over a fluted #5 contour by using a carbon barrel.
So in a distance of roughly 3" there was .008 worth of curvature in the bore.
Current barrels are running very very straight as reported recently by a good friend of mine. They actually hired some Aero space Engineers to help them design tooling to create straight bore's. They also do everything in house now instead of getting blanks from other barrel manufactures.
Anyway I think things are looking up.
Coyote sniper what bullet do you use for coyotes in your 25-06 AI ?
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Sorry for the delayed response, been guiding hunters. I shoot a 115 berger and its treated my very well on coyotes out to 800 yards.
I use a SiCO omega on my christensen barreled 24"300WM. I get a minor 2" POI shift, but not the large drop some other users are getting. May be the shorter barrel, may be the lighter can, who knows.