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Gents: Could use your input: I am beginning my project on my 300 win mag conversion to 375 H&H. This questions surrounds the barrel: I am thinking I want to use a 22" barrel. Can any of you offer suggestions/recommendations as to contour and size at the muzzle? I certainly don't want it to be muzzle heavy; I am looking to create a rifle with the balance point between my hands. Thanks. | ||
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in normal calibers I usually prefer Heavy Magnm contour barrels... For a project like that, I'd consider a Varmint Weight barrel as it will be a little heavier than a Heavy magnum weight barrel ( contradictory huh?.. the manufacturers name it, not me..) I once handled and shot a 375 H & H chamber Sako like that, but the barrel was cut to 20 inches.. it was far from NOSE heavy... it handled very well... and worked just fine on the 200 yd targets we were shooting at... It seemed to have a big push to its recoil instead of a sharp rap like the 300 Mags do... Life Member: The American Vast Right Wing Conspiracy Jan 20, 2009.. Prisoner in Dumocrat 'Occupied America', Partisan in the 'Save America' Underground Beavis..... James Beavis..... Of Her Majesty's Secret Service..... Spell Check Division "Posterity — you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." John Quincy Adams A reporter did a human-interest piece on the Texas Rangers. The reporter recognized the Colt Model 1911 the Ranger was carrying and asked him "Why do you carry a 45?" The Ranger responded, "Because they don't make a 46." Duhboy....Nuttier than Squirrel Poop... | |||
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I'm one of those people who like a #4 contour for .375 cal rifles. Mine are all 22 inches in length, although some people like longer barrels. .395 Family Member DRSS, po' boy member Political correctness is nothing but liberal enforced censorship | |||
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My .375 H&H barrel is a Dougles #3 contour 23" long with a muzzle of .670. IIRC it was the lightest Douglas I could get but I like to make guns light as I can always add weight fore and aft at the end of the project if I want. I can also achieve balancing too by adding lead weights at the end of the project. I just mill pockets in the forend and butt stock and epoxy in lead shot. It's a lot easier to add weight than remove it! /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// "Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." Winston Churchill | |||
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jsl.....An AAHE Parker should balance "between the hands"........ A big game hunting rifle to be shot offhand should have "hang"....should be muzzle heavy. Shoulder an older Mauser built for African hunting, by one of the English builders........25 to 27 inch rather slim long barrel; wonderful balance, long sight radius, burns powder completely, less muzzle blast.... Steadies on the shoulder of that buff like a rock.......... JMHO......Grant. | |||
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Use a 26" Lothar-Walther USA barrel. Woody and the guys over in Georgia make a heck of a good barrel. I've purchased 2 of his .423 barrels and I will soon own 3 of his .257 barrels. An excellent product at a reasonable price. Rusty We Band of Brothers! DRSS, NRA & SCI Life Member "I am rejoiced at my fate. Do not be uneasy about me, for I am with my friends." ----- David Crockett in his last letter (to his children), January 9th, 1836 "I will never forsake Texas and her cause. I am her son." ----- Jose Antonio Navarro, from Mexican Prison in 1841 "for I have sworn upon the altar of god eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." Thomas Jefferson Declaration of Arbroath April 6, 1320-“. . .It is not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.” | |||
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