Switch Barrel ?????

[c3006]

I have never messed with a switch barrel rifle, as a rule how far off will your scope be after changeing one in the field? When you change back does the first barrel come back close to where it started as far as zero goes? Thanks c

 

[fdshuster]

c3006: I always do my "switching" in the workshop with the barrel vise clamped to my heavy duty work bench, so have no field changing experience. I remove my scopes, and take the barreled receiver out of the stock, to prevent any chance of damage. Scopes are all mounted on Weaver type bases using Burris Signature rings and they remain on the scope when removing, so there has never been a change in scope setting/adjustment. Ditto for switching barrels/ no change's in point of impact, although it will take 3 to 5 shots for the rifle to settle down after having the barreled & receiver out of the stock.

 

[wwbrown]

I switch barrels in the field with my barrel vise mounted to a 2" steel tube slid into my receiver hitch. I also remove my scope as my port entry wrench does not clear my scope. I have Burris XTR rings mounted on a Picatinny rail and the POI shift is very slight usually under 1 MOA mainly in the vertical.

I usually do not remove the barreled receiver from the stock as the recoil lug is pinned so I do not have to worry about the lug alignment.

I timed myself one time and it took me 8 minutes to change barrels without hurrying.

wade

 

[alf]

In a properly chambered gun, I expect them to be nuts on.

I never pull off the scopes or take them out of the stocks, of which, obviously, is impossible with a glue in. However, I will if the barrel is partially bedded, or the lug is not pinned.

 

[c3006]

I was thinking this might have some promise when prarie dog hunting but then I think about how many rifles I have and it seems stupid.......still ;D

 

[Taildrag15X]

Check out Larry Racines website here on how to really do it!

http://www.lprgunsmith.com/lpr_switch_rifle.htm

 

[tdnichols]

I have my switch barrel set up by LPR gunsmithing...Larry Racine...6x45(222REM MAG) and a 221FireBall I love it...working on stock now to allow action to stay in stock and just unscrew barrel

 

[4xforfun]

I used the same gun (BAT mod "M") in IBS 1000 yard comp. I switched bbls between light and heavy gun relays, and we shot them back to back. I do not take the scope off. I can do the switch in about 3-4 min. At 100 - 300 yards the bbls grouped in the same group, unless I shot WAY different loads (ie..240smk at 2700 and 210 bergers at 3050) and was always on paper at 1K. I could take the gun apart and put it back togeter 10 times and have a nice little group at whatever the distance. I had a bbl made up by a differant smith and it did shoot to a slightly differant POI, but it is the same every time...I just dial to the proper setting and it is ALWAYS there!!!

Good luck.

You should NEVER make a switch bbl rig out of a gun that has ANY part of the bbl bedded!!!!! NEVER.

 

[Cheechako]

It wasn't too many years ago that most point-blank Benchrest shooters had one rifle with two fitted barrels. One LV barrel and one HV barrel. He also owned a portable barrel vise and action wrench. At the completion of the LV aggregate for the day, there was a break period when everyone changed the barrel and added weight to the butt to convert their 10.5 pound rifle into a 13.5.

Long story short, the barrels usually printed very close to each other. But, the shooter knew exactly how far apart the groups would be and he recorded that information along with all other details of scope adjustments, loads, etc. There were instances when a switched barrel could print several inches away, but the shooter knew exactly how much.

Today, most shooters own 3 or 4 rifles and many have never owned a barrel vise or action wrench.

And that's the way it was. :

Ray

 

[c3006]

My grandmother allways said "whats old becomes new and whats new becomes old" ;D