How many rounds to wear out a barrel?

[Redneck with a 40]

I have a heavy barrel Remmy 700 SPS Tac in .308, I would expect no less than 10,000 rounds out of this rifle. I mostly shoot mid-range handload's and factory loads such as 150 grain Core-Lokt's. I'm usually 1.5 grains off the max on my handload's, I'm not trying to eek out every last fps. Also, I shoot about 500 rounds/year, so that's 20 years of shooting.

 

[Yarddog]

What about hard cast boolits ; ) Get Manny more down a barrel than FMJ,JSP & JHP JMO ; )
Y/D

 

[papa_bear]

glad to see people are actually reading the whole post before responding........:banghead:

 

[P-32]

FWIW the Highpower crowd budgets about 4,000 rounds before they figure the barrel starts to affect the 600yd scores. Maybe you can push that to 5 or even 6k. These are primarily .223 AR's. Then they use that upper for short line practice & matches.

This is my thinking and true for me.