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What do you guys think?
What do you guys think?
the only thing this has over a savage or a remington with a remage nut is that it is really easy to swap bolt faces. other than that you could do this with a 400 dollar rifle instead of a 4 thousand dollar one. it is a Proof though so Im sure it's good. Desk Jockey made a good point about re-zeroing but it goes deeper then that. Each time you change barrels you could potentially be slightly changing your headspace which potentially could affect accuracy " IE a round that produced 1 inch groups could potentially get worse, or better actually." Like I said its a Proof so its certainly going to shoot good anyway but from a guy that does a lot of handloading this gun sounds like a nightmare.
its a good idea if they intend for the user to just occasionally change barrels because they want a different caliber, but to us it as "switch barrel" type gun where one day you are coyote hunting with a 223 and the next dumping elk with the 308. I just don't see people being happy with the amount of effort needed to get it shooting again. You would never be able to trust grouping that was shot before the most recent "switch"
I am currently building a model 700 using a remage nut, and it is great knowing I can switch that up any time I want to but to switch it back and forth just seems like it would end up being a complete waste of time.
All that being said....I bet it sells like hotcakes
I don't know if I will be able to bring the snipershide thread over here but I guess I can screen shot it. And post pics here.
A guy takes a bighorn TL3 (same action as the proof rifle) and had 5 manufactures (I believe 5) send him a pre fit savage and a shouldered barrel (10 total barrels). Broughton, Mullerworks, criterion, shillen and bartlein IIRC. He tested each manufacture pre fit to its shouldered counterpart and companies to each other. Testing repeatability essentially taking off and putting on and if there is any significant advantage to a shouldered barrel over a pre fit savage type in respect to accuracy.
Once he posts it I'll be sure to share it here if anyone would be interested.
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