Now, many of you will run shorter barrels than I do, and wondering about how you get on with various weight bullets in your. I'm sure the author is basing his statements on experience but I feel he is not giving enough info in the article to enable me to judge how he has come to his conclusions. ![]() so perhaps I'm not testing things hard enough to know my bullet/barrel length combo doesn't work.? Mind you, I've never tried 180gr bullets and its been over a decade since I shoot either a deer or a target more than 100m away. A sako with a 20" barrel would put them into 25mm groups at 100m and a Howa with a 19" barrel that groups 165gr bullets into an average of around 18mm at 100m with the SP bullets - in my book that is good enough accuracy and clearly at odds with what Honore has written. ![]() 308s and have mostly used 165gr bullets (hornday SPs and SSTs mostly). So perhaps the above is based on expectations of that type of accuracy? But I've never of anyone else arguing such a critical relationship between barrel length and bullet weight. I'd have to say the pictures of groups in the article are very impressive, mostly pics of groups with holes touching. He doesn't really explain what he means by "shoot" nor does he give what his expectations are. 308 barrel can shoot 165gr projectiles maximum, whereas a 24-inch barrel can shoot 180g" and goes on to say that the common 20-inch barrels are limited to 150g projectile max. 308 Win in particular, states "you need a 22-inch or longer barrel to shoot 165gr". In this article, Honore, who sounds pretty experienced and with the. Their muzzle velocity (fps), trajectory, ballistic coefficient, and sectional density are virtually identical between both cartridges (within a few percent). ![]() It has an article entitled "Accuracy is all About Consistency" by Evan Honore. I have the latest copy of NZ Guns & Hunting in front of me, apparently the last printed issue ever!
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