Barrel fluting. Who's doing it?
- Thread starter SuperCub
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Not to mention most barrel manufacturers recommend against fluting barrels. When fluted barrels heat up the point of impact changes. Not worth the money to save the small amount of weight. Put the money into a gym membership and build up your cardio and strength instead.
1/2 " off the muzzle will lose more weight than flutes. Turning down a bbl may be a not so great idea for accuracy.
Cause you've done it?
I'm not sure what you're trying to say?
Yeah, but it looks cool.
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Yes it does!
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I agree. Removing some metal from over the chamber (1,062" Dia over say 30-06 is plenty-look over Savage barrels for instance or Winchester/Husqvarna fetherweights) and creating step in front of chamber like in military Mausers would shed 2-4oz. Also milling 2-3 chambers in forearm under the barrel and drilling three 3/4" dia 6" long holes in wooden or solid plastic butstock might lighten it another 6oz or so. That and fluting should slim the firearm 12-14oz easy enough, I know I done it before. Another thing to consider is to use lightweight scope mounts and lighter scope, some of my setups weight no more than 10oz all in! My 2c....
Not sure who did your work or what you actually had done, but if the work was done right, the surface finish should be the same in the flute as out. If it sticks to the flute, it will stick to a unfluted bolt, but it doesnt really worry me - I clean my guns after a hunt.
Wow, okay lets see. Rifle barands who flute: Remington, sako, winchester, weatherby, steyr, savage to name a few. Aftermarket barrel companies who flute: Pacnor, Mcgowen, Lilja, Hart, green mountain, ER Shaw, montana rifleman, Krieger, Gailard, King, Smith come to mind.
Your point of impact will change on any barrel as it heats up.
I just weighed a few cutoffs I had handy from fairly typical sporter weight barrels. 1" of 25cal barrel weighed exactly 1 ounce, 1.5" of 30cal weighed 1.8ounces, 1.872" of 30 cal weighed 2 ounces even. So on average, your 1/2" of barrel will weigh between 0.5 - 0.6 ounces (sporter weight barrels from Remington, ruger, and a King). Fluting a barrel wont loose a huge amount of weight, but if your barrel fluting only reduced your barrel weight by 1/2 ounce it was probably done with a felt pen. Oh and how do you think barrels are profiled?
