What Do I Tell My Gunsmith?

[wildcatter]

I agree with some others, assemble the dummy round, tell him your intentions with your dummy round compatible for the reamer you chose, anything else a good gunsmith should already have covered.

 

[Tommie]

Guess I’ll dissent from the prevailing opinion.
Figure out what you want so your gunsmith can make something that will best suit your needs. Otherwise it’s like going to the barber and saying you want a new haircut but not communicating what you’re looking for - ya get what ya get.

 

[Dusty Stevens]

Guess I’ll dissent from the prevailing opinion.
Figure out what you want so your gunsmith can make something that will best suit your needs. Otherwise it’s like going to the barber and saying you want a new haircut but not communicating what you’re looking for - ya get what ya get.

Is that why i keep getting the skullet from the 70’s burnout barber i go to?

 

[Tommie]

Is that why i keep getting the skullet from the 70’s burnout barber i go to?

Well since you brought that up…

 

[Colnagotex]

I agree with Ned Ludd on shooting what you have and putting an order in for 2 longer blanks for the future so you can achieve higher velocities without killing your brass. I shoot the 85.5's with the T15 reamer and i find they shoot really well out to 600yds out of my 30" barrel. I haven't have any issues putting 3 good strings together in F-Class competition and don't find myself chasing ghosts. I haven't tried them at longer distances, but at 600 they hold their own against the 20X in the hands of experienced competitors.

As far as what to tell your gunsmith, you already did when you handed him your new reamer. Good luck and have fun with it.

jpeel

 

[Rainierrifleco]

So it sounds like to me you want specific throat dimensions I got this request alot
I would not cut a throat with a throating reamer they would need to bring me a reamer with there spec. They desire. And had wonderful results
I stock only Sami reamers and popular wildcat stuff. Odd one off is on the customer

 

[Ccrider]

That should be interesting.

Why?

 

[Rtheurer]

the 26 inch barrel is giving a up a pretty good amount of Velocity to the standard 30" for shooting FTR and F class in general. Can it be done? sure it can. Is it going to be harder, i believe that it will.
If you can get the 88 and 90 grain bullets up to 2800fps at the muzzle without destroying brass in one or two shots... That will certainly help.

 

[urbanrifleman]

the 26 inch barrel is giving a up a pretty good amount of Velocity to the standard 30" for shooting FTR and F class in general. Can it be done? sure it can. Is it going to be harder, i believe that it will.
If you can get the 88 and 90 grain bullets up to 2800fps at the muzzle without destroying brass in one or two shots... That will certainly help.

My 26 does that no problem. It's not the barrel length it's the freebore. People are shooting way too short. I followed what Nedd said to use and pressure is not an issue.

 

[urbanrifleman]

After throating to 230 fb for the 88 in a 26 inch 7 twist the node that looks easy to hit was 2730. I see absolutely no reason why that wouldn't work. Next load workup I'm going to go above 2800 (which I already did no problem) just to see if I hit this magic 2850. I'm pretty sure I can. I'm using AR COMP.

If 2730 is a low pressure accuracy node that shoots tight, I will sleep like a baby.

Honestly, I think most of the problems with this setup is people trying to run long barrels. It seems wholly unnecessary to me.

 

[Old Navy]

Firstly, there are gunsmith, then there are gunsmiths, then there are GUNSMITHS.

This was a good point that a lot of you guys missed. I noticed that a most of the replies here came from competition shooters with a lot of experience dealing with smiths that cater to their disciplines. There are a lot of good gunsmiths out their building hunting rifles/modern muzzle loaders etc. that don't have a clue what you guys are doing. Maybe his smith is one of those. My smith knows how to dial a barrel into .0002-3" and cut a good chamber. He doesn't know what FT/R ,BR , or PRS etc. are. I think the OP learned a lot here that will help him on his next build.