Thread: What's the Deal?

Thanks Tussock I have been thinking about trying to express sensibly the thick/heavy/hot internally barrel theory for a while.

Some of the Target guys fire a heap of rounds in fairly short time.

I have often wondered how the Carbon wrapped barrels get on with thier very thin metal barrels surrounded by resin etc.

The heat has to get out & away from the throat as fast as possible to avoid excessive erosion.

I noticed a while ago now that you could fire 10 shot mag or two out of my 338 Norma 98B Barrett & it would stay reasonably cool.

The alloy chassis would heat up taking the heat quickly out of the barrel, it has a big shank/shoulder area around & in front of the chamber which has plenty of contact with the chassis.

Fluting is mainly cosmetic I believe, with a small decrease in weight & increase in surface area.

A fluted barrel will be stiffer than a barrel of the same length & weight.