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Hammer-Forged Rifle Barrels
Tom Beckstrand - November 26, 2018

Pushing hot, burning gas down the bore causes the steel around it to rapidly transition between solid and liquid states. It melts a little bit each time the rifle fires.

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The 6.5 Creedmoor barrel used in this test

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Well there you are, if he had used the good old .30-06 he would have got far different, better results.

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I'm thinking the lower accuracy capability statement was simply used to generate more ink, thus words, thus pay per word, pay check. It might also have been included to generate discussion and thus the need for more words.

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Some interesting points in the article, but Daryl sums up my opinion of so many of these articles. No wonder people no longer buy a lot of these printed magazines. Hopefully the actually printed articles are better.

BTW who here "mainly uses stainless steel barrels"?

I don't own a single one! Maybe I am a curmudgeon.

I also don't have a single heavy of match grade barrel, but I reckon the guys back in the 1950's knew things, get a thicker heavier barrel. It does not heat up as quickly and it doesn't whip around as much. Probably takes longer to "melt" as well.

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The test was pretty simple: Fire 20 rounds as fast as I could through each barrel

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How often do people actually do this though?

When I used to bump into a mob of goats, or a bunch of pigs, and it was a large group and the group couldn't flee, then maybe.

And if shooting groups, but then again who shoots "as fast as they can"?

Maybe it is because of the "spray and pray that something hits the target" of some semi auto shooters?

When I was fifteen or sixteen. I urged a friend to buy a bolt action .22. No he got the actual brand I recommended him to buy, a Stirling .22 S/A with 15 shot magazine. We used to go out hunting rabbits. He would fire, again, again again, many shots. Miss, miss, miss. I would raise my rifle and fire once, and dead was the bunny. Learning with a single shot crappy .22 Lithgow, taught me to aim and shoot properly ...

Which brings me to my final bit of BS ... ... that article shows me why a good single shot is best. You don't need or can shoot twenty rounds rapifd fire as fast you can. You fire once, and hit the target. A lot of these single shots are so fantastically accurate as well.

BS ended. Not paid per word either.

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John aka NitroX

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Edited by NitroX (15/05/19 12:28 PM)

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