Ok, got my shit together this morning and using the Deep Creek Method, measured my distance to the lands. 1450rds on the barrel and it's still shooting great (see post above).
Last time I measured the distance to the lands on this barrel it had ~500rds down the pipe... this is a 26" Proof Research Competition Contour Stainless 6CM Origin prefit 7.5T.
@500rds: distance to lands = CBTO 2.235"
@1450rds: distance to lands = CBTO 2.241"
That's only .006 fucking thousandths of throat erosion over ~1000rds!!!
I did this twice, a second time with a different piece of brass and different bullet, same result.
So by running a load that's ~175-200fps slower than @High Desert duck, and jumping a bunch more (+0.095" more to be exact), the throat on my barrel is eroding at a rate MUCH slower than on his barrel.
Someone better at math please help me out, but, it looks like by running hotter and right up on the lands he is getting 2x the amount of erosion as I am, in only 1/4 the rounds...
So, scientifically-speaking: his barrel is wearing a metric fuck-ton faster than mine is. (In fact, sorry dude, but my barrel, with twice the rounds on it, is probably in better condition than yours at this point.)
Comparing one barrel to another isn't really much of anything... so I hope anyone with anything of value to add on this will chime in...
Last time I measured the distance to the lands on this barrel it had ~500rds down the pipe... this is a 26" Proof Research Competition Contour Stainless 6CM Origin prefit 7.5T.
@500rds: distance to lands = CBTO 2.235"
@1450rds: distance to lands = CBTO 2.241"
That's only .006 fucking thousandths of throat erosion over ~1000rds!!!
I did this twice, a second time with a different piece of brass and different bullet, same result.
So by running a load that's ~175-200fps slower than @High Desert duck, and jumping a bunch more (+0.095" more to be exact), the throat on my barrel is eroding at a rate MUCH slower than on his barrel.
Someone better at math please help me out, but, it looks like by running hotter and right up on the lands he is getting 2x the amount of erosion as I am, in only 1/4 the rounds...
So, scientifically-speaking: his barrel is wearing a metric fuck-ton faster than mine is. (In fact, sorry dude, but my barrel, with twice the rounds on it, is probably in better condition than yours at this point.)
Comparing one barrel to another isn't really much of anything... so I hope anyone with anything of value to add on this will chime in...
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