Chandler Brothers (Col. Ret. USMC, Norman),(in 762), Crane, (in 338L), and some others tried it, short barrel fast twist, trying to make rotational twist overcome loss of velocity from short barrels.
Attempt was to make a short handy SWS for several reasons. About the same time as Nick making his Desert Tactical bullpup.
The short fast twist barrels suffered from varying barrel quality, one did fine, one didnt. And they ran into needing a special loading, that pressured correctly and burned all the powder in the barrel.
The pressure issue to get the velocity created problems that blew up a few test guns, and field testing in 120-130° temps made it worse.
Kinda ended the experiment for then. The experiment did continue with gain twist barrels, but, jury is still out.
The Accurate Rifle magazine had several write ups on it, Snipershide had a few topics on it pre-Scout, and it's far enough in the past, they are pretty hard to find.
The most current and lasting use of fast twist short barrels is the 8 twist shorties in 300 Blackout, there may be more, cant think of them this morning.
The writer of the linked article on short barrel/fast twist isnt well thought of by many on the Hide, there are enough negative comments interspersed through here if you look hard enough. Several in the podcast post section.
I personally like using the 9 twist in my 300 magnums, the added rotational velocity gives a little bit of edge at a mile, if the bullet jacket holds up as barrel wear and fouling starts to build. That has killed a few older Berger vld bullets for me in years gone by.
The Hide is blessed to have people like Jim Boatwright and Alan and Dan Warner, who probably know more about barrel twist rates and results than the rest of the hide.
