marksman13
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I know folks are doing it and I see several folks online making a 1:10 twist barrel work with heavy-ish .30 cal bullets. I’m looking for personal experiences here if possible. I’m thinking about having a rifle built with a 22”-24” barrel that will mostly mimic the feel of the Springfield 2020 Waypoints I’ve come to love. I really like the BSF barrels they use, but BSF only offers their .30 cal barrels in a 1:10 twist rate. Not sure how the 22”-24” 1:10 twist barrel is going to play with the 212 grain ELD-X bullets I intend to use.
I know that 22”-24” is less than ideal for the 300 PRC, but the rifle will spend it’s life suppressed and I have no desire to lug around a 26” barreled rifle with a 7”-9” suppressor hanging off the end of it. I did that some last deer season and it was a pain. I figure with a 22” barrel I should still be sending a 212 grain bullet down range with a muzzle velocity of 2750 FPS or so and that should still give me enough velocity and energy to kill an elk reliably out to 800 yards which is further than I’m going to shoot at an animal other than pigs.
Anybody running a 300 Win Mag or 300 PRC out of a shorter 1:10 twist barrel wanna give me some feedback? I’m also not opposed to going with 300 Win Mag, but I don’t reload and don’t intend to start, and I like the 300 PRC’s 212 grain ELD-X factory loads from Hornady. I’d like to continue using those cartridges in a shorter, lighter package than my Browning X-Bolt HCLRM. Thanks in advance.
I know that 22”-24” is less than ideal for the 300 PRC, but the rifle will spend it’s life suppressed and I have no desire to lug around a 26” barreled rifle with a 7”-9” suppressor hanging off the end of it. I did that some last deer season and it was a pain. I figure with a 22” barrel I should still be sending a 212 grain bullet down range with a muzzle velocity of 2750 FPS or so and that should still give me enough velocity and energy to kill an elk reliably out to 800 yards which is further than I’m going to shoot at an animal other than pigs.
Anybody running a 300 Win Mag or 300 PRC out of a shorter 1:10 twist barrel wanna give me some feedback? I’m also not opposed to going with 300 Win Mag, but I don’t reload and don’t intend to start, and I like the 300 PRC’s 212 grain ELD-X factory loads from Hornady. I’d like to continue using those cartridges in a shorter, lighter package than my Browning X-Bolt HCLRM. Thanks in advance.