Hoot wrote:wildcatter wrote:Hey John,
About your new barrel not doing as well as the old, did you change the twist??
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Ass - u - Mehaw Mehaw Mehaw
When I ordered the barrel I asked for
20" CrMo, standard Bushmaster barrel with a rifle length gas port and a muzzle brake thread. I assumed that meant a 1:24 twist. Apparently that was not what Trident thought as I just measured mine using the patched jag method. The shaft completes one revolution in 16.19 inches.
Gee, I wonder why the recipes don't match up?
Going to crawl in bed and curl up in the fetal position now.
Hoot
Well, anyway, it's good to know I called it, but then even a broken Clock...dah, dah, dah...
You prolly will get exceptable accuracy out of those 200's, if Minute-of-Grizzle is the goal and they'll certainly kill anything you want to kill, I mean the 450b is VERY forgiving (As in you can blow the shot, use the wrong ingredients, and still kill the target BANG-FLOP!). BUUTTT, knowing your propensity for all things going straight and true, the 200's may not live up to your standards, with that particular twist/bullet combination.
Do you still have some of those 300's? Might want to try that and better yet I like the 325gr FTX-.458" Squashed down of course or better-better yet I love the Hornady .458-350grFP's shrunk down. Of course the 325gr Barnes Buster's are about the best bullet ever devised (designed by me, for Barnes) and might shoot very well indeed out of that barrel, assuming one does not want to resize .458's.
I guess what I'm saying, is using the ever stalwart 230gr Ball Bullets and lighter, prolly won't give you the results you desire. Meaning, that barrel just might become your African Plains Gun.
As an after thought, if you certify that barrel with the heavies, somebody here will prolly want to buy it and then consider going to the Green Mountain Barrel CO., Web Sight, and picking up a 32twist .452" (SKU BX45C $88.00 -
http://www.gmriflebarrel.com/25-round-b ... iber-colt/) taking it down to a Machine Shop and Bingo you have a barrel bettered suited for 230-grainers and lighter. That ought to make those 200's sing??
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