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Who makes the best Lightweight Long Range Gun
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<blockquote data-quote="Dean2" data-source="post: 1320660" data-attributes="member: 26077"><p>I appreciate your input. This much more closely aligns with my experience, especially the part about not everybody can make a great lightweight rifle. Like you I have owned a ton of different lightweight guns and very few are really great shooters. Melvin Forbes, maker if the NULA, agrees with you that light weight barrels need to be fully bedded, as does the action. He also starts with a really light bolt action, 308 class is 20 ounces, where most others are close to 36. He also uses in a in house custom stock that is far lighter and stiffer than any other lightweight stock I have seen.</p><p></p><p>What I was looking for on the original post was gunsmiths that were in Melvin Forbes's league and producing guns that shoot as well as his. I have never had a NULA that would not shoot 1/2" right out of the box.</p><p></p><p>Here is a target with 2 different bullets, 130 Barnes and 150 grain Hornady, 2 powders, Varget and 4895 and 4 loads. The individual loads are great, all .3 to .5 and they are also pretty close together on the target. All 12 shots were fired with not a lot of barrel cooling time to see how heat affected the light barrel. The last two groups do show some vertical from the heat but those were rounds 7-12. Out of a cold barrel that same load prints .3 to .4 just like the first 6 of the Hornady 150s with Varget did on this target.</p><p>Click to enlarge.</p><p>[ATTACH]76579[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dean2, post: 1320660, member: 26077"] I appreciate your input. This much more closely aligns with my experience, especially the part about not everybody can make a great lightweight rifle. Like you I have owned a ton of different lightweight guns and very few are really great shooters. Melvin Forbes, maker if the NULA, agrees with you that light weight barrels need to be fully bedded, as does the action. He also starts with a really light bolt action, 308 class is 20 ounces, where most others are close to 36. He also uses in a in house custom stock that is far lighter and stiffer than any other lightweight stock I have seen. What I was looking for on the original post was gunsmiths that were in Melvin Forbes's league and producing guns that shoot as well as his. I have never had a NULA that would not shoot 1/2" right out of the box. Here is a target with 2 different bullets, 130 Barnes and 150 grain Hornady, 2 powders, Varget and 4895 and 4 loads. The individual loads are great, all .3 to .5 and they are also pretty close together on the target. All 12 shots were fired with not a lot of barrel cooling time to see how heat affected the light barrel. The last two groups do show some vertical from the heat but those were rounds 7-12. Out of a cold barrel that same load prints .3 to .4 just like the first 6 of the Hornady 150s with Varget did on this target. Click to enlarge. [ATTACH]76579.vB[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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