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28 Nosler, Terrible barrel burner??
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<blockquote data-quote="RockyMtnMT" data-source="post: 1323362" data-attributes="member: 7999"><p>I don't want to talk you out of what you want to do. Comparing to factory twist rates is not good reason to stay as slow as they are. Pretty much the only factory rifles that are not on the slow side of twist rate are the 6.5's that are fairly new to the market sporting 8" twist. This is still not really fast but relatively faster than most factory rifles and able to handle higher bc bullets for cal than most other rifles.</p><p></p><p>I am a mono metal bullet maker and the slow twist barrels really limit your options when it comes to bullet choices. I will also say that with all of our testing faster twist barrels giving higher sg (stability factor) have better terminal performance for hunting. This will go for all bullets. My opinion after testing bullet impacts is that the 1.5sg that is considered fully stable for flight, should be considered a min for terminal performance. Stability closer to 2 is much more desirable.</p><p></p><p>As to the powder we have used the RL-26 in our 27 Nosler 7" twist running 168g bullets but it was too fast and we did much better with RL-33.</p><p></p><p>Steve</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RockyMtnMT, post: 1323362, member: 7999"] I don't want to talk you out of what you want to do. Comparing to factory twist rates is not good reason to stay as slow as they are. Pretty much the only factory rifles that are not on the slow side of twist rate are the 6.5's that are fairly new to the market sporting 8" twist. This is still not really fast but relatively faster than most factory rifles and able to handle higher bc bullets for cal than most other rifles. I am a mono metal bullet maker and the slow twist barrels really limit your options when it comes to bullet choices. I will also say that with all of our testing faster twist barrels giving higher sg (stability factor) have better terminal performance for hunting. This will go for all bullets. My opinion after testing bullet impacts is that the 1.5sg that is considered fully stable for flight, should be considered a min for terminal performance. Stability closer to 2 is much more desirable. As to the powder we have used the RL-26 in our 27 Nosler 7" twist running 168g bullets but it was too fast and we did much better with RL-33. Steve [/QUOTE]
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