Help me choose a barrel

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Pac-Nor .. Oregon, in polygonal, I always had good luck with theirs, at what I thought was a fair price. Cheers

 

[flyguy1]

I have several barrels by x caliber these guys have been great and I will order from them again.

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Actually, my smith likes them too; a No. 1 he rebuilt just printed several 1/2 MOA groups at 300 yards with 300 H&H. Caveat, he was a real, not pretend, sniper.

 

[JAYgs8163]

you're not totally wrong by any means. But so far everything I have shortened has been just fine, maybe slightly different powder choice than what the books say.
I'm thinking about 2900fps with a 135 berger should be easily attainable even with just a 22" barrel, and the ballistics with those numbers is quite good.
I'm not saying it's the most efficient use of powder, but they sell it for us to burn! Better than creedmoor, little less than PRC.

Probably need to have it throated for the longer bullets to get that kind of speed.Those 135's are long and take up case capacity. I'm looking at some load data for 120 Sierras and 2900-2930 is max book load in a 24" barrel.

 

[CForest]

Probably need to have it throated for the longer bullets to get that kind of speed.Those 135's are long and take up case capacity. I'm looking at some load data for 120 Sierras and 2900-2930 is max book load in a 24" barrel.

yeah extending the throat is likely to happen and I have lots of mag space.
The data berger sent me shows 2900-3100 depending on powder, and that's just saami chamber, but with the longer barrel obviously. So I figure I will loose some with shorter barrel but gain some back in case capacity. Also going off of what others have done, gets me in the ballpark anyways.
Going AI has been a consideration too, but part of the reason for sticking with the 06 is head stamped brass. My boy already has a sako 25-06 sitting in the safe so prefer to keep things the same to prevent confusion someday.