Gents/ladies.
Here's question that follows from a recent discussion in the Rimfire Section under Vudoo versus RimX.
I can see at least arguable advantages to switch-barrel rifles, and if you're leaning toward them, pre-fit barrels would seem a reasonable way to go, at least to me as a non-engineer and non-gunsmith. Might be interesting to have a discussion of pros and cons, reasons to want to swap barrels (e.g., research, such has been reported and discussed elsewhere in the rimfire section on 22 LR twists and suitable barrel lengths for various applications), and so on.
If the general topic has been fully aired out theoretically and practically elsewhere, I can't find it. Chipping in my utterly speculative judgments based on thought and not on oily hands and dirty fingernails, such a setup makes some sense in the practical/field general purpose rifle, particularly rimfire. If there were increasing numbers of rimfire matches allowing other cartridges (17 HM2, say) or other than bare lead projectiles, then being able to enter without a whole new rifle system would be appealing. And of course, that would lead to ongoing research that would be eased with barrel changeability. And rifle folks do like to fiddle with mechanical things.
How do the various systems compare (e.g., Anschütz's pinch barrel, Savage's barrel nut, screw-on, possibly others)? Advantages and, especially, disadvantages? Real world utility versus riflists' love of gadgets and mechanical quirks? Centerfire applications versus rimfire?
FWIW.
Cheers and salaams,
David
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Here's question that follows from a recent discussion in the Rimfire Section under Vudoo versus RimX.
I can see at least arguable advantages to switch-barrel rifles, and if you're leaning toward them, pre-fit barrels would seem a reasonable way to go, at least to me as a non-engineer and non-gunsmith. Might be interesting to have a discussion of pros and cons, reasons to want to swap barrels (e.g., research, such has been reported and discussed elsewhere in the rimfire section on 22 LR twists and suitable barrel lengths for various applications), and so on.
If the general topic has been fully aired out theoretically and practically elsewhere, I can't find it. Chipping in my utterly speculative judgments based on thought and not on oily hands and dirty fingernails, such a setup makes some sense in the practical/field general purpose rifle, particularly rimfire. If there were increasing numbers of rimfire matches allowing other cartridges (17 HM2, say) or other than bare lead projectiles, then being able to enter without a whole new rifle system would be appealing. And of course, that would lead to ongoing research that would be eased with barrel changeability. And rifle folks do like to fiddle with mechanical things.
How do the various systems compare (e.g., Anschütz's pinch barrel, Savage's barrel nut, screw-on, possibly others)? Advantages and, especially, disadvantages? Real world utility versus riflists' love of gadgets and mechanical quirks? Centerfire applications versus rimfire?
FWIW.
Cheers and salaams,
David
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