Thread: 7mmsaum barrel life

if only hunting, then heaps!!
on average most of us, solely deer hunting would shoot around 50 rounds a year, and that's with a few sighting in shots before a big trip.
so at that rate it would take 20 years to shoot 1000 rounds.
if shooting goats, chammy or thar then the yearly round count will probably be slightly higher,
shooting paper or gongs and the barrel life will be reduced significantly.
work out roughly how many shots a year you would use in that particular rifle and divide that into 2000, and that will give you a starting point
on roughly how many years of barrel life you have..
also the hotter the load,the shorter the barrel life.