I have a hawk hill with 2800 rounds on and it’s still going strong ,disclaimer I end up at 2850 with almost all my bullets 109s 105s Berger and 108 eldm
Is that a prs rig? 2800 is up there for a gt. Ive ran mine pretty hard as its a match rig, but at 2900 from a 28" with 4350 in a mod400 BB steel bartlein, hoping it should live a long life. Shooting matches in summer heat, the barrels are hot all day long.
I’ve gotten 3400 on my 26” Bartlein when I pulled it. Was still shooting fine. Did it more so for piece of mind.
Thats great to hear. There's hardly any fire cracking in this thing at 1400, maybe 50k of the freebore shows wear, but nothing else. I measured lands prior to barrel install, then pulled barrel and measured again at 700 rounds and it only moved 005. I was pretty impressed.
I understand that, but for a barrel to go 3400 and still be shooting good, which is 1k more than most gt's I've heard of, the bb steel must indeed hold up quite a bit better. My buddy has pulled his last 3 dasher proof prefits just shy of 2k due to flyers becoming a norm. He never ran them that hard either. I think the varget/short neck dasher combo is not barrel friendly. I guess the throat life comment was just me thinking out loud. I think the jury is still out on the harder alloy from bartlein, but the more of em that guys kill, the more data we have.
Yes it’s for prs everyone keeps saying it should be done , my next match is in a week and half and I’m going to put my other barrel on.
By good I mean it still shoots the same half inch at the same speed it shot after I broke it in .
Well feel free to scroll way back through the thread where I’ve spoken about it in more depth. No I didn’t measure fire cracking or any of that shit. But it still held the same velocity (2850) and still held right groups. Shit a few matches with it when it hit 3k and had no issues. Not trying to claim anything other than what I said. I pulled it at 3400. Could just be an anomaly, who knows. Just put it out there for people that think they need to pull their barrel at 2k. I shoot with several others that made it to 2500+ as well.
I've posted this before and everyone ignored it will do again in spirit of alternative loads that work well.
I can confirm his round count too...
I run 36.7 H4350 alpha brass 450/BR4 and was getting 2940 on virgin and get 2967 on once/twice fired. running 109s as well at 2.555"
I 100% agree. They are extremely cheap for a reason. The integrity of their bullet construction really needs to be set higher. That said, when they work, their bc is on point.
Yeah that’s a good starting point. I didn’t run a test with 109’s but I did with the 110 A-tips and 36.3 was 2860ish. My Varget loads with A-tips is the same with 109’s so I would venture a Guess that you’ll be fine right in that area.
Good info.
Ive ran arc, pmag, and accurate non binder without any problems. My biggest feed issues was with mdt non binder, I just tossed em back in the parts box. Those mags have only done okay with the 25cm. And still needed tuning.
My one MDT is similar in that it's basically a 7-8 round mag. Feeds beautifully and smoothly up to that point, but nose dives with any more than that.
Accurate-Mags work the best for me. Still needed to open/tune the feed lips up a bit in the front.
I’ve heard of some having to do it on the earlier batches of Alpha (not the OCD) but not really needed on Hornady.
Nope. My chamber will run Hornady and Alpha without issues.
