SELLING Urbanrifleman Barrel Testimonials

I put together what I thought would be a somewhat less than fully serious/fun gun from parts I had, a Mac Bros action and an Urban Rifleman varmint weight barrel, 8" twist, no turn neck 6BRA, 0 FB, a spare rifle for a friend to shoot if we were going to the range. A friend had some time and needed something to shoot while his barrel cooled between load tests, so I sent him to the range with the first 50 rounds that the rifle shot to fire form that many cases. The load consisted of some N203B and some orphan short range benchrest bullets, something that I have plenty of. My plan is to shot them in this rifle. I figured that I it would shoot low 3s, that would be OK for what I planned to use it for. After all, I have fancier rifles, with more expensive barrels. After letting a friend that was shooting with him shoot a few rounds, my friend decided he wanted to see what he could get out of it, so he put up another target with a couple of aiming points. After three shots he chickened out, fearing that he might spoil the group.
I called him while he was at the range, looking for a report on how my rifle had shot. He had a little fun with me and told me it had shot around an inch. Later he sent me this picture. I initially thought
(looking at it on my phone) that it was a two shot group. I figure that it is probably a low to mid one. I will measure it when he brings me the target. Conclusion: Performance does not always correspond to price.
 

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BoydAllen said:
I put together what I thought would be a somewhat less than fully serious/fun gun from parts I had, a Mac Bros action and an Urban Rifleman varmint weight barrel, 8" twist, no turn neck 6BRA, 0 FB, a spare rifle for a friend to shoot if we were going to the range. A friend had some time and needed something to shoot while his barrel cooled between load tests, so I sent him to the range with the first 50 rounds that the rifle shot to fire form that many cases. The load consisted of some N203B and some orphan short range benchrest bullets, something that I have plenty of. My plan is to shot them in this rifle. I figured that I it would shoot low 3s, that would be OK for what I planned to use it for. After all, I have fancier rifles, with more expensive barrels. After letting a friend that was shooting with him shoot a few rounds, my friend decided he wanted to see what he could get out of it, so he put up another target with a couple of aiming points. After three shots he chickened out, fearing that he might spoil the group.
I called him while he was at the range, looking for a report on how my rifle had shot. He had a little fun with me and told me it had shot around an inch. Later he sent me this picture. I initially thought
(looking at it on my phone) that it was a two shot group. I figure that it is probably a low to mid one. I will measure it when he brings me the target. Conclusion: Performance does not always correspond to price.
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Thank you so much for your review. I do appreciate it. :)
 
OK, I got the chrono data. He clocked four shots. The average was 3,227, the ES 25, bullet 67 grain Tucker #3, soft seated. Powder, 32 gr. N203B (reportedly identical to RL15). One more little thing. Lee used offer a 6PPC collet die. I got one before they were all sold. It will neck size both the BR and BRA case. It was the most economical way to neck size some cases several times before sending them to Harrell's with a die order for my other (tight neck) 6BRA.
 
Shot a personal best the other morning with my Urban 6BR.
SDs used to be better with this load, but i don't worry about it too much, wind calls are the bigger problem.
I got a lot of flyers on the next trip out, which I traced to tiny cracks in the necks.
So much for "6BR brass doesn't need annealing".
 

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Brad,
How are you doing for final finish on the barrel spinner? I have a 600 grit on my expanding drum and that looks nicer.
 
John Hixson groups with factory ammo.IMG_0636.jpgIMG_0634.jpg
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"Hey Brad, that barrel you made for me is awesome after I got the barrel broke in, the groups were starting to get smaller I was putting 2 bullets in the same hole and the third shot typical would mess my group up, I usually do not keep anything unless it below a 1/4 MOA and these were at .40 but the last three shells that I had was the 0.15 and that was on a Saturday and then I shot again on Monday and my first 2 groups was the one on 9/9. These were shot at 100 yards my 250 yard targets were not great I can shoot at 100 yards fine but when I shoot out to 250 yards can't seem to get it together.
Thanks for the barrel, I may have you rebarrel a Tikka later.
John Hixson"

"I don't reload I shoot factory ammo but when I talked to you, you mentioned I believe it was frontier ammo, that frontier 223 hollow points shoot very well out of your barrels, I shot 556 hollow points but they didn't shoot very well, the barrel may not have be broke in yet. I shot those targets with Federal Sierra Matchking 77 grains, the only problems these are around 25.00 a box I'm looking to find cheaper ammo that shoots just as well.
 
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