Decisions, Decisions!

[HNDLDR]

Just out of curiosity why forget the .243 at 200 yards? You load a 100gr in the 6mm, a 140ish in the 6.5 and a 150ish in the 7mm and they are all within a couple hundred FPS. Is it just barrel life?

I didn't mean forget it. I meant leave it alone. Don't re-barrel it if most of the shooting is going to be 200 yards or less. There's not really any advantage to the heavier bullets that close in my opinion.

 

[ARlife4me]

I do several AP builds in AR 15 and 10. I now have 2 CBI hybrid 22" m118 chambered barrels purchases from Brownell's that are outstanding. Using pmag gen3 you can go 2.830".

 

[Weaver93]

I didn't mean forget it. I meant leave it alone. Don't re-barrel it if most of the shooting is going to be 200 yards or less. There's not really any advantage to the heavier bullets that close in my opinion.

10-4……got it. Makes sense.

 

[ntsqd]

With the .243 I'd blow it out to an AI, be that the existing barrel or something extra zippy. Not for any velocity gains, but for brass life.

For a while, and maybe still, the Brownell's private label AR10 .308 barrels were made by Satern. I got one, shoots exceptionally good for the price. Enough so that I shoot it more than the upper with the expensive can't recall whose barrel in it.