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Create a channel Learn moreAre you shooting the 6.5 or .308?I shot a goat @ 300 yards with a 143x, mushroomed perfectly (all petals expanded, to ~ 3-4x dia) and was logged on far should - out of a Fix. Performed perfectly. Goat went ~ 10 yards.
Not making excuses for Hornady but ALL bullets ,regardless of manufacture, are an engineered compromise based on velocity. 2700-3200 FPS is a wide range on thin skinned game. Personally I would use a lighter bullet if I was hunting deer. I use 120's in my 7-08 Imp for just that reason.Some people are moving to eld m. They are saying some of the eld x are too thick to expand
@Hondo1 hey what did you end up seeing velocity wise out of your 16.5 6.5CM? Thanks!
And weight of total set up
And weight of total set up
That's a great speed for a heavier 6.5 from a 16.5 inch barrel. Nice! Thanks for sharing.... pics are always a plus as this thread has had too much negativity and not enough pics!
Looks like 8.5lbs on the bathroom scale. That is without the can.
Do you are mr tooly happen to have the weight of the barrel? Is it fluted?
Do you are mr tooly happen to have the weight of the barrel? Is it fluted?
@cleric @Hondo1 I think this was yours?Finally got time to flute the barrel I told you about. Q 6.5 med Palma 16 1/2" long with extension
unfluted 16 1/2" 3.10 lbs.
fluted 2.77 lbs
flute details .250" W flat bottom with radius .100" deep
flute length center to center of cutter 9.0195"
weight reduction 5.28 ozs. from fluting
weight reduction reducing barrel length from 22" to 16 1/2" 11 ozs.
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I see. Are the specs the same?
Are all bartlein barrels marked bartlein or are some just marked Q 308 Win
That’s more or less what I use or just camo fabric tape.Nice hunting @Akdodge88 any pics of your setup with the full Nelson? I’ve had good luck with the McNett Tactical Camoform wrap as you can customize the size and thickness and there’s no residue when you remove it.
They are all marked. Barrels without the Bartlein/Tooley laser engravings are something else. Where did you get it?
Yeah mine was 0416 was sent 5 months ago and came with a green mountain. So they made the switch a while back.It came from Panda Tactical out of Maryland. Really helpful ppl... called me within 10min on a saturday to try to help figure it out. But this is what I am working with and this is what PT's invoice looked like (attached). The serial number is right.
ETA: just realized this was covered on the last page. Still figure it is "sharable information" considering the dealer's order was for the bartlein and it was advertised as such
Yeah mine was 0416 was sent 5 months ago and came with a green mountain. So they made the switch a while back.
Agreed.How does it shoot? I’m not going complain about a rifle that shoots well just bc of the name on the barrel, but if they actually have completely moved away from the B/T barrels, they shouldn’t be listing them as such on the order form bc it is technically a +$200 “barrel upgrade”. I contacted Q to see if I can get an explaination to why both the dealer and myself were told it was B/T so I guess I’ll wait to see what their response is. All I know is if I sold a bartlein barrel on the EE here and shipped the person a Green Mountain, they would prob want to kick my ass.
How does it shoot? I’m not going complain about a rifle that shoots well just bc of the name on the barrel, but if they actually have completely moved away from the B/T barrels, they shouldn’t be listing them as such on the order form bc it is technically a +$200 “barrel upgrade”. I contacted Q to see if I can get an explaination to why both the dealer and myself were told it was B/T so I guess I’ll wait to see what their response is. All I know is if I sold a bartlein barrel on the EE here and shipped the person a Green Mountain, they would prob want to kick my ass.
Definitely would be asking for the right barrel or a partial refund of you paid the Bartlien/tooley premium
I’ll look into that for a wrap.Nice hunting @Akdodge88 any pics of your setup with the full Nelson? I’ve had good luck with the McNett Tactical Camoform wrap as you can customize the size and thickness and there’s no residue when you remove it.
I was told by management that Q was paying $68 for a barrel.So.... are people getting better accuracy from their "Q barrels" than the Bartlein barrels?
Thats what I have just recently been told. Can we start posting some groups with rifle/ammo specifics? Pics or it didn't happen?....
I was told by management that Q was paying $68 for a barrel.
Mines finally setup and sighted in.So.... are people getting better accuracy from their "Q barrels" than the Bartlein barrels?
Thats what I have just recently been told. Can we start posting some groups with rifle/ammo specifics? Pics or it didn't happen?....
Great picture bro, glad to hear you’re enjoying yours. You have a nice setup too.Got a chance to shoot further than 100 yards today. Learned some things, mostly that I don’t know very much! Haha. I’m hooked though and eager to learn as much as I can. I’d appreciate any advice any of you all have to offer.
The first problem I had was finding a place to shoot more than 500 yards in the coastal range of Oregon. Finally found one that looked further, hiked a steel target into a clearing as far as I could and then spent 30 minutes trying to get my Bushnell 1000 rangefinder to see the target! Finally got it to read 760 twice. I’m thinking I need a better rangefinder to get into this long range stuff...looking at the Vortex Ranger 1800 and the Sig Kilo2200BDX. Any thoughts?
I have a cheap chrono and averaged five shots at 2635. Shooting Hornady ELD 140 factory match. Seems pretty low velocity for a 22” barrel. In any case, the Hornady calculator told me to dial 5.84 MRAD. I dialed 5.9. It also told me to dial .11 left, which I ignored...I didn’t enter a wind value and didn’t figure out it was probably for spin drift until after I shot (still guessing).
I was shooting at a 10x12 plate and ended up getting 3 hits out of 15 in the top left side. That was enough to hook me without being too few for me to give up. Perfect then! Haha. Anyway, I went out to learn but didn’t end up learning much because to get those three hits, I was holding every edge of the target and don’t remember getting a repeat hit from any one hold. Long range version of spray and pray? Oh well.
Loving The Fix more every time I pick it up.
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Got a chance to shoot further than 100 yards today. Learned some things, mostly that I don’t know very much! Haha. I’m hooked though and eager to learn as much as I can. I’d appreciate any advice any of you all have to offer.
The first problem I had was finding a place to shoot more than 500 yards in the coastal range of Oregon. Finally found one that looked further, hiked a steel target into a clearing as far as I could and then spent 30 minutes trying to get my Bushnell 1000 rangefinder to see the target! Finally got it to read 760 twice. I’m thinking I need a better rangefinder to get into this long range stuff...looking at the Vortex Ranger 1800 and the Sig Kilo2200BDX. Any thoughts?
I have a cheap chrono and averaged five shots at 2635. Shooting Hornady ELD 140 factory match. Seems pretty low velocity for a 22” barrel. In any case, the Hornady calculator told me to dial 5.84 MRAD. I dialed 5.9. It also told me to dial .11 left, which I ignored...I didn’t enter a wind value and didn’t figure out it was probably for spin drift until after I shot (still guessing).
I was shooting at a 10x12 plate and ended up getting 3 hits out of 15 in the top left side. That was enough to hook me without being too few for me to give up. Perfect then! Haha. Anyway, I went out to learn but didn’t end up learning much because to get those three hits, I was holding every edge of the target and don’t remember getting a repeat hit from any one hold. Long range version of spray and pray? Oh well.
Loving The Fix more every time I pick it up.
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I just stuck the receiver in a vise and unscrewed it.How are people removing the cherry bomb muzzle brakes?
I don’t want to damage anything having seen in the Accuracy International thread some one has ripped off the threads on a barrel ?
I wasn't very satisfied with the response, obviously. The "its a better barrel anyways" line (not actually a direct quote but that was the general idea) wasn't what I wanted to hear bc (1) its beside the point and (2) if I am going to spend 3k on a rifle, I'm going to make as educated of a decision as I am capable of making and I actively sought out a B/T barrel. Now I'm being told that they aren't available so I guess that makes me SOL?? Idk... just hope it shoots well so that I don't have to start really annoying some CS people haha.
Is that $68 for a finished barrel?!?!
How are people removing the cherry bomb muzzle brakes?
I don’t want to damage anything having seen in the Accuracy International thread some one has ripped off the threads on a barrel ?