I am going to rebarrel my Howa 1500, I want a 22" barrel. Looking at a Bartlien heavy varmint. I want a lot of weight to soak up the recoil, the factory barrel is 1.17" at the shank and .850" at the muzzle. In a 3.5# Bell and Carlson, the gun bucks pretty hard (not braked either). This gun will...