optimum barrel length
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Fork Horn
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Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: hagensborg BC Canary Islands
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optimum barrel length
My buddy has a ruger in 338. It has a 24 inch barrel. He wants to put a new stock on it and cut the barrel down to 18 or 20 inches. He is willing to lose the velocity, what can he realistically expect for accuracy? He wants to cut the firearm down to reduce overall length so it won't hang up in the thick bush moose hunting.
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RE: optimum barrel length
A 338Win can shoot very accurately out of a 20-22" barrel. It is very common to do what he is doing. In my opinion, barrel length has very little to do with accuracy to a point. Has to do with powder burn rate and consistency in doing that, the thoat length, the smoothness of the barrel, the round of the crown. Just an opinion. I mean, you can't expect to have a 1" barrel and get accuracy.