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I liked guns better when light weight was thought to be a rifle under 8 lbs and had a wonderfully figured walnut stock and wraparound checkering
And faster heating.
That was the reason for building mine, there wasn't a single rifle in the configuration I wanted. LH really limits the options.
My prefit 20" 6.5PRC LRI "Pattern X" barrel came in at 2#10oz / 1190g
Thats a lot of material removal, im sure at a higher price but that looks really nice. How many shots in a string do you get before the heat starts "walking" the POI?
That's an answer I don't have yet, I only have 20rnds down the tube half were with the can. None of it was from a bench. Hopefully I'll know in the next week or so.
Thats interesting, a sub 2lb barrel would heat up really fast. Would you say the retained precision is due to the quality of construction or do you think the flutes help keep it cooler longer? Is it too hot to touch after that 10rd string of fire?
Curious about the faster cooling part. When I did start to look into fluting a barrel in a CAD model the difference in surface area wasn't a lot. Granted, without actual fluting measurements I was having to make educated guesses at the flute dimensions, but one commenter posted that I was close to what their fluting's dims were.
