Rifle Question

[gramps73]

Looking at a new rifle but do not like the lenth of the barrel can it be cut down and if so will effect the shooting of the gun?
gramps

[harv3589]

Yes it can be cut down, just get someone who knows what they are doing to do it and recrown...it should shoot just fine.

[gramps73]

thamks Rob
have youever used the rifleman in Calgary, his price was cheap and it kind of worried me about the quality of work?

[harv3589]

I have used Rick at ATR and he was good, most of my stuff I send to Corlanes to have done.

[roger]

in short you are going to lose some velocity, which in turn, will change the POI,. if your just building a bush type gun it wont amount to squat.
Just for curiosity maybe put it through a chrony before and after.
on my two 257mag weatherbys with one having a 26" and the other was 24" shooting the same handloads. with the two inches differance it lost 100fps. (26"/3650fps and 24"/3550fps).
my other extreme is my 77 ruger frontier with a 16" bbl in 300short mag, ive not ran it through a chrono, but stats say it is equal to a 3006.

[Pathfinder76]

Originally Posted by roger

on my two 257mag weatherbys with one having a 26" and the other was 24" shooting the same handloads. with the two inches differance it lost 100fps. (26"/3650fps and 24"/3550fps).

There can be allot more than the barrel length at play here that can result in the velocity difference between those two barrels. Barrel dimension, throat dimensions, chamber dimensions, bore quality all can make a difference.

I have a Savage 16FCSS in .270WSM that I had cut down 3" and crowned. Henry Rempel in Calgary did it for $30.00 while I stood and watched and even fed me some coffee. Nice guy and superb workmanship. I sacrificed a mere 55 fps muzzle velocity. POI was identical and the gun is a tack driver. If feels way different now, one of my favourite guns.