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Noveske DDF Barrels
- By pangris
- Semi-Automatic Rifles
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So I'll admit, I'm not very tactical. I just kill pigs and coyotes, usually with a 12.5" or 20" Grendel, Noveske builds, Noveske barrels.
I struggle to understand what is gained from "heating them up" with 40 rounds and checking accuracy at that point. It is a free country and if you want to do 5 mag dumps and check accuracy - hell, I'm academically curious at that point myself - but... why?
As I say every chance I get, I have 3 Noveske Grendels and on most days with factory Hornady ammo, I can reliably generate .6 MOA 5 shot groups. I've struggled to put 10 in 1", but I got tired of spending $25 at a whack on what is ultimately vanity. And, perhaps I should simply slow down, but what I'm really getting at is this -
I think of these guns as precision rifles. They're capable of real world hitting a 3-4" target at 300-400 yards, and we're using factory ammo. With handloads, we're likley under half a minute.
I can't imagine ever getting off 15-20 rounds fast in practice. Even with a pack of 50 pigs, they be scattered, smothered and covered by the time I got through a mag. And, if I'm shooting that many movers and my accuracy went from .6 MOA to 1.5 MOA - I'm pretty sure the pig hauling ass across the field would be a bigger problem than the groups opening up a bit. I don't see the benefit in chewing out the neck any faster.
If you're looking at this from a competition angle or you're fast roping into a terrorist compound, mea culpa - but beyond that
I struggle to understand what is gained from "heating them up" with 40 rounds and checking accuracy at that point. It is a free country and if you want to do 5 mag dumps and check accuracy - hell, I'm academically curious at that point myself - but... why?
As I say every chance I get, I have 3 Noveske Grendels and on most days with factory Hornady ammo, I can reliably generate .6 MOA 5 shot groups. I've struggled to put 10 in 1", but I got tired of spending $25 at a whack on what is ultimately vanity. And, perhaps I should simply slow down, but what I'm really getting at is this -
I think of these guns as precision rifles. They're capable of real world hitting a 3-4" target at 300-400 yards, and we're using factory ammo. With handloads, we're likley under half a minute.
I can't imagine ever getting off 15-20 rounds fast in practice. Even with a pack of 50 pigs, they be scattered, smothered and covered by the time I got through a mag. And, if I'm shooting that many movers and my accuracy went from .6 MOA to 1.5 MOA - I'm pretty sure the pig hauling ass across the field would be a bigger problem than the groups opening up a bit. I don't see the benefit in chewing out the neck any faster.
If you're looking at this from a competition angle or you're fast roping into a terrorist compound, mea culpa - but beyond that
