Shortening a BAR 30-06 or 308

I don't know the answer to your question, but I do know that you would greatly reduce the value of your rifle.
 
I understand what you are telling me Bruce, but value reduction is of no consequence to me. My shoulder is shot and I can't handle recoil anymore.
 
I shortened one BAR '06 for a customer. Didn't affect function.
But I do not see the relationship between shortening the barrel and reducing recoil.
 
Gerald said:
I understand what you are telling me Bruce, but value reduction is of no consequence to me. My shoulder is shot and I can't handle recoil anymore.
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Not criticizing you but would reduced loads not serve you better?
Shortening the barrel would likely make things worse.
 
Let me explain this. I understand the shortening of the barrel will not have anything to with the recoil. I did not ask if this was the case. I currently use a 30-06 760 carbine. The handling is excellent but the recoil is too much. Reducing the length, I thought, would make the BAR handier, more like the 760. This is why I want to know the answer to my original question
 
Gerald said:
Let me explain this. I understand the shortening of the barrel will not have anything to with the recoil. I did not ask if this was the case. I currently use a 30-06 760 carbine. The handling is excellent but the recoil is too much. Reducing the length, I thought, would make the BAR handier, more like the 760. This is why I want to know the answer to my original question
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There is a reason for everything and yours makes perfect sense now
 
Ease up a bit of powder and bullet weight on your reloads?
If you're not after the mean furs out there, 150's for bullet weight
or slightly lighter should be ample for deer/moose and even elk
if your poi is valid.
 
Tagged for interest. I have wondered the same thing as Remington and Benelli both make short barelled versions of their semi auto rifles.
 
While I'm not normally a fan of brakes on hunting rifles, they work, and could provide an answer to your problem. If you were to choose a light bullet, a reduced load, or a smaller cartridge, you're giving something up, but a brake allows you to continue using the same loads, and continue exploit the performance you've come to appreciate. If you were to switch from your Remington pump to a semi-auto like the BAR, you have additional recoil dampening though the gas operated action, then the installation of a brake further reduces the recoil impulse. A fellow I work with has that exact setup, a short barrel .30/06 BAR with a brake; it barks, but it doesn't bite.
 
I think the old BARs in .308Win, Stalker model, have a twenty inch barrel. Perhaps that would be handy enough and less trouble and/or expense than getting a barrel shortened.
 
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