24" Barrel -vs- 26" Barrel
I went and bought what i thought was a Savage 10FP today but when i got home i realized it was a 10FP-LE2.The 10FP has a 24" barrel and the LE-2 has a 26" barrel.Using this as a "po boys" bench gun will the extra 2" benefit me in anyways??Should i use slightly hotter loads giving the longer length barrel?? BTW...this is a .308 Thanks for any insight.
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I do not do much target shooting anymore but I do recomend the 26" barrel. The extra 2" will give you another 75-200 FPS. This means a little flatter trjectry. I use 26" barrels on most of my custom hunting rifles. This also gives you a little more weight on the end of the barrel and this helps you to steady your rifle when shooting without a bench. I would recmond useing your same loads and seeing how they shoot before I started to try and up them, you may not need to do anything but shoot. Good luck
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While it'll never win any bench rest competitions, you have a dandy rifle. Tests show that there is a loss of about 100 fps per inch of barrel. Who cares? Certainly not that big bugger of a whitetail or that innocent piece of paper. Accuracy is what counts not velocity.
Don't try to compensate for 2" of barrel by thinking hot loads will do it. They won't. Work up your load for the rifle you have. You lose no accuracy with a 24" barrel. Just a bit of velocity.0 -
I would be surprised if the 2" of barrel gave you 200fps!! Using the same loads you might see 75-100fps change but like another has already said, it's not velocity it's accuracy!!! There are 2 things that the BR fraternity has that 99% of us here at this site don't---"TIME AND MONEY"! Learned that about 1976! However I can still build a rifle that will shoot better than most people are capable of. I outshot some Shilen DGA's and a couple 40XB's in the former days of BR. Was shooting a 721 Remington Action and a Douglas Air Guage barrel at 26" in 6x47!! Damn the ppc's!!! They ruined the sport! Not really. It's just that now when you see the rundown of the top guns at the various shoots it makes you think they ought to change the name to the PPC Society!!! GHD 0 -
the BR people go for short & fat in the barrel length, so the 24 would be better. most BR go for 20" 0 -
timney has a drop in trigger for the savage now. I just installed one in my 300 wsm in a flss. took about 20 min and a trigger pull guage. Made a huge difference in the feel of the gun. Shoots a bit better also.
If guns cause crime, all mine are defective.0
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