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Re: New Weatherby Caliber [Re: huntwest] #5976505 10/14/15 03:37 AM
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Just a question, how many here using modern ammo and rifles have "shot out" a magnum rifle barrel? I imagine a few probably have but every time a new hot rod rifle caliber comes out some of the first comments are "it's going to be a barrel burner" the same comments were used during the introduction of the .264mag among others from back in the day using different alloys of steel and powders that weren't nearly as efficient and probably did burn some barrels out. I've shot the .264win pushing hot loads for years and years with no noticeable loss of accuracy or barrel damage. I run a bore scope down it every so often and I can only notice maybe the slightest bit of erosion. I think the 26 Weatherby round is probably a good introduction for them considering all of the love of the 26 caliber over the last few years.


Good question and I can tell you for a fact that Weatherby has has exactly 7 30-378 rifles come back in17 years with a burned out barrel. I am not saying that super speed calibers don't burn out barrels, they do. But 99% of the people that buy these rifles hunt with them and might put 25 rounds through one a year.
That is why the ammo price argument usually doesn't hold water, so you spend 100.00 on a box of ammo a year, that is the cheapest cost of all of your hunting.


A person that burns up the barrel on a 30-378 is a masochist in my opinion.


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Re: New Weatherby Caliber [Re: huntwest] #5977875 10/15/15 12:10 AM
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