What is so great about Mauser rifles to make used ones so $$$?

[hawk-i]

You use what you have. That doesn't mean it's the best, or even a good choice.

A good choice is one that works....and that choice will be different for different people.

One thing I've noticed over the years is, if the good old boys all hang out at the same bar, they're all the more likely to use the same equipment.

Anyways, my initial post was only pointing out that a fanboy (not meant in a derogatory way) may have subconsciously skewed the facts to fit his/her beliefs.

 

[Ardent]

Hey Ardent,

this cut and paste from 6mmbr.com


Which is Better, Button Rifling or Cut Rifling? There is no clearly superior form of rifling. Check the results from major benchrest matches and you will see both cut-rifled Kriegers, and button-rifled Harts, Liljas, and Shilens among the trophy-winners. David Tubb has dominated cross-course and high-power shooting with Schneider pull-buttoned barrels, but Kriegers are favored by many Palma shooters and members of the USA F-class team. Button rifling can produce a very smooth interior finish, and the majority of winning 6PPC barrels are buttoned. On the other hand, many shooters believe cut-rifled barrels last a bit longer. By the nature of the manufacturing process, cut-rifling puts fewer stresses in the steel and twist rate is more likely to be uniform. Additionally, a cut-rifled barrel can be fluted before the bore is rifled. On buttoned barrels, fluting must be done after the bore is rifled and stress-relieved, so there's a chance stresses from profiling/fluting can alter the bore. The only possible issues we've heard with cut-rifled barrels, particularly Kriegers, is that the high, sharp lands can be tough on 6.5mm J4 jacketed bullets, such as the Clinch Rivers and JLKs, when they are driven above 2950fps in an 8-twist barre

Mike Stinnetts .077" group was with a Krieger, and so was Jim Carmichel's .1322". Nothing but a cut rifled barrel, and to my knowledge nothing but a single point cut rifled barrel, has ever held the world record. I'm sure there's some obscure record somewhere that bucks the trend, however the most scientific accuracy shooting there is clearly favours cut rifled barrels. .3 might not seem like a lot more than .2 but a hundred people can fit between those two marks in a bench rest competition. Summary, for flat out accuracy there still isn't anything better than cut rifled. On hunting rifles? Sure, essentially zero difference. Then again few of those ship with a single point cut rifled barrel, too. Like none.