Defiance Ti-X

[akmtnhnt]

This is very interesting. I was looking at the Ti-X especially with 75 bolt, now I'm not sure. I typically run on the hot side of loads so TI might not be the best.

You have to decide what ~6oz is worth to you.

 

[Phil Rizzo]

Few questions for ya. What's the total weight of the titanium rifle setup? The ss setup? Were you shooting the same exact rounds through both? Or did you hand load rounds for both? Cbto same for rounds for both guns? Freebore the same? Jump?

Most of this info is available in previous posts.
I had to hand load for both separately to find max pressure, obviously, and it was a very wide disparity.
CBTO same, same reamer. Good precision with the barrel with BOTH actions. But a solid 200fps advantage to the SS, with better precision. No contest. No doubt.
No BS.!

 

[Longtine88]

Phil your assumption on the slower velocity on the TI action is sound and true. TI will expand with pressure. Hence pressure lost at the action hence slows the velocity of the bullet down the barrel as you well know. I personally have not played with a TI action. I have friends that have. I asked one of them yesterday anfter reading your post about what he has seen and he said the same. He suspects he is losing 100 fps because of it. He did say he would not own another one. Like you I believe Brux and Krieger barrels are tough to beat and are the most consistent from experience. I can chamber two B or K barrels with the same caliber and use the same reamer and set the same headspace even on different actions and they will both pressure out pretty much same point and the loads will end up almost the same. I personally have two 6mm CM's chamber exactly the same and two 7mm saums, same barrel but two different actions and shoot the same load in both. The saums are are in the same action.