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If you have a good load, what happens if you change actions?
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I have a rifle that I've worked up a load for and it shoots very well. However I am curious what would happen if I took this barrel off of this rifle and put it on a different action. How much change in the load would occur if I went from a Remington blueprinted action to a Stiller Predator, which is a Rem. clone?

Not saying I'm going to do it for sure, but is this just like starting all over?


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I did that exact thing and found myself going back to the drawing board. I guess the barrel harmonics changed as part of the switchout of the action.
 
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I kind of thought that would be the case, but with the chamber and bbl remaining the same, I was thinking that the harmonics would be very close.


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Absolutly the truth, "any" change will affect groups.


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JMHO, if you swap barrels you change the position of the barrel in the new action, you change the barrel seating surface to surface fit and the torque of the joint.

I don't see how the load performance wouldn't change. It may be to small to make much difference but it also may be a major shift in performance.


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