Re: New Build Idea, short.243
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: deadly0311</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: OilyOwl</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
The myths associated by barrel length affecting velocity,are curiously enough perpetuated by those that shoot the least.
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while this is true, when cuttin the tube shorter, <span style="font-weight: bold">you are giving up velocity</span>, but you can get that back. Run a hotter load, but that has its drawbacks as well....
less brass life,torch a throat quicker, blowing primers.
When chopping a tube short, you are gaining things such as handiness and better presentation of the rifle, but you give up things as well. This sport is a give and take thing. You have to weigh the costs of what would best suit you. </div></div>
Balance/handling reliably bears the most fruit and handy/dandy done right,leaves little to want for. Does an 18" 243 horn me up? Nope...but that isn't because it's performanced is paled to paltry levels.
I've a difficult time dropping below a 20" tube(on anything centerfire),due solely to noise. For those willing to make that concession,I couldn't say with a straight face that the 243Win stoked with upper echelon BC's is going to puke,mainly because it doesn't.
Few hate long tubes more than I,as I've been through the 30" Phase and have seen the light. I'm a fan of practical portability housed within a great handling and well balanced rifle,if only because tools of that ilk are the most well rounded.
I'm comfy with a low ES,LRF and turrets.