Re: Factory Barrels Stink!
When FGMM shoots 1-1/4 from a factory Remmie, but reloads way out beyond mag length shoot 1/2 MOA, I don't believe you can call that a load problem more than a rifle problem.
All I see above regarding how "good" defectively-long throated barrels can shoot are excuses for bad manufacturing inspired as much by chicken-**** beancounters as by the dreaded lawyers.
Don'cha think Savage has lawyers on board too? THEY can build and SELL a decent barrel out of the box.
Specs are specs. Build the throat to SAAMI specs and you have a very good defense against meritless lawsuits from careless/reckless/"I'm assuming all risk for what I do" reloaders who think a bolt gun can and should be run "to the limits of the brass".
I can imagine how the Board Room meeting played out:
Lawyers:
"Build the product to industry-established standards and the only mechanical failures will be from bad ammo or bad materials. We CAN defend the company against lawsuits from consumers to foolishly hot-rod their reloads, and the makers of defective factory ammo would be at fault, not [company X]. The reasonably foreseeable casehead failure from these causes leads to only superficial wounds to anyone who follows the universally-recommended practice of wearing eye protection."
Accountants:
"Holding the tolerances to [SLOPPY throats] saves us $X per unit, or $XX,000.00 per year. These tolerances will avoid X dozen case failure events, of which XX will typically result in a lawsuit. The costs of successfully defending or settling each lawsuit would be $XX,000.00. The added costs of replacing rifles sent back by customers disgruntled by the sloppy tolerances would be $XX,000.00. So, we save $0.55 per rifle by keeping the throats long."
Meanwhile, the marketing and PR people are having kiniptions because they HATE servicing those inquiries from unhappy customers and making excuses for some money-driven decision to deviate from well-known standards for making a rifle right.
Wonder how Savage's decision-making process was driven? It's all a matter of corporate values.
I cant even seat a 168gn SMK close to that lol. (compared to the factory RP ammo he was using, the bullet was jumping .230" until it hit the lands, thats right .230"!)
