By: MARK

MARK — Sat, 01 Jun 2019 20:40:32 +0000

I say ask yourself are you worried about heat or how the heat effects your shot placement. if I have a light weight barrel looking for a light weight build how mant shots on a bench can I ge during my load development am I going to get. my extensive experience in building ultra light mountain rifles has proven at max 3 shots and your done bullets start walking. now a carbon barrel of the same weight it acts more like a heavy steel barrel allowing for a few more before you start seeing the issues that you do in a ultra light barrel. Am I sold on carbon barrels yes helix-6 builds the fines carbon barrels on the market hunting, f class and ELR I have them all.

By: Bob T

Bob T — Mon, 27 May 2019 21:01:08 +0000

Finally someone has acknowledged that cf is an insulator. Back when I started college to be a metallurgical engineer, carbon and all the resins (around 150 then) acted as an insulator. I’ve been watching all these claims that the barrels run cooler. Cooler? Why, because you can touch it? Look, if the heat isn’t radiating out the barrel away from the chamber, it’s going somewhere, like the receiver. Heat travels from a hot body to a cooler body. That’s simple physics. So, what’s the gut check? Does anybody have any proof that barrel life is shorter or longer because the metal tube is wearing a jacket? I’d love to see two identical rifles have a test with different barrels under a thermal vision camera. Make it 3 barrels; 1 carbon-wrapped, one bull, and one light-contour. It’ll be a lesson in heat transfer (or retention.)

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