Thread: Re-barrel Otago/Southland

Turns out I don't need to go this route anyhow... After originally deciding I didn't want a suppresor on my 243 I bought one of the new Neilson Sonic Compacts to go on my Tippman and it happened to be the same thread as my Kimber so I was doing all my load development with the suppressor on.... Couldn't for the life of me get the bloody thing to shoot anything at all, tried it without the suppresor and didn't have any luck so put it back on and kept trying all sorts of projectiles and powders and burnt through quite a few of my precious CCI200's before I took it to the local gunstore and asked them if they could see anything obviously wrong with it. Bore scoped it and nope he reckoned the lands were beautiful and crisp, nice rifling, crown looked good and no firecracking or anything. Then he had a look through my suppresor.... One of the baffles doesn't line up with the others and it's been striking a baffle the whole bloody time! Turns out it probably just didn't like the load I tried without the suppresor anyhow and the whole time it was suppressor causing issues. Worked up a load with superformance and 85gr Speer and 3300fps and tiny little groups just like that!
Back to my original train of thought now, suppresors are dumb.