Darth vader
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rifle to buy
get a Nosler 48 patriot in 280AI
get a Nosler 48 patriot in 280AI
ER Shaw MK VII Rifle
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minuteOhog
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Nosler 48
Whats a Nosler 48 run? If I can get that for the same price as a Shaw it would be really attractive! I haven't heard people talk about how they shoot though?
Whats a Nosler 48 run? If I can get that for the same price as a Shaw it would be really attractive! I haven't heard people talk about how they shoot though?
Txhillbilly
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People can say what they want about E.R.Shaw barrels. I've owned many different custom barrels over the years,and almost every E.R.Shaw barrel I've had shot just as good as the more expensive ones.
I currently have 3 Shaw barrels,two 6.5 Creedmoor and a 7mm-08. All are Savage pre-fits,and all of them shoot excellent and clean up easily.
There are too many shooters that get hung up on the Name/Price of something,and then others that talk about rifles that are Ugly looking to them.
I have many different brands of rifles,but the 8 Savage actioned rifles that I have are the absolute best shooting rifles that I own.
I currently have 3 Shaw barrels,two 6.5 Creedmoor and a 7mm-08. All are Savage pre-fits,and all of them shoot excellent and clean up easily.
There are too many shooters that get hung up on the Name/Price of something,and then others that talk about rifles that are Ugly looking to them.
I have many different brands of rifles,but the 8 Savage actioned rifles that I have are the absolute best shooting rifles that I own.
I'm not discounting the ER Shaw rifle, I use a lot of Savage actions and a couple of Shaw barrels without complaint. However, right now if I we're looking to spend +/- $1000 on a rifle I'd be.looking.hard at the Montana Rifle Co. American Standard Rifle. I think you'll get more rifle for the money in the long run, and anything that fits a M70 action will pretty much fit the Montana rifle.
The Nosler Patriot will start around $1300 and is a rifle worth considering for sure.
The Nosler Patriot will start around $1300 and is a rifle worth considering for sure.
FrankenMauser
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Txhillbilly,
I've broken in at least 7 new barrels in the past year. (I lost count. But you can add 8 to the figure if you want to count derringer barrels.
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The barrels ranged in price from over $400, to $75.
Most of the barrels have been high quality and have impressed me. A few were reasonable, and performed better than expected, for the price.
The most irritating barrel, however, is an E.R. Shaw. It is a stainless Savage pre-fit in .35 Whelen, that I put on a Marlin XL7.
It shoots reasonably well. (~1.5 MoA)
However.... it fouls like no barrel I've ever seen before. After just five rounds, the copper fouling is so thick that you can see the wide, prominent copper streaks with the naked eye, in poor lighting.
If you toss 20 rounds down the tube... It's game over. The copper covers the entire circumference of the bore and is so thick that you can actually see chunks of it stuck to the lands.
Right now, that barrel is undergoing its seventh application of BoreTech Eliminator (a very good copper remover), and I don't expect the patches to come out clean. It's very likely that I'll still have raw copper staring me in the face after I run some patches through the barrel.
Bad, bad, bad, very low quality rifling, in my opinion....
Buy one again? ...Not likely.
I've broken in at least 7 new barrels in the past year. (I lost count. But you can add 8 to the figure if you want to count derringer barrels.
)The barrels ranged in price from over $400, to $75.
Most of the barrels have been high quality and have impressed me. A few were reasonable, and performed better than expected, for the price.
The most irritating barrel, however, is an E.R. Shaw. It is a stainless Savage pre-fit in .35 Whelen, that I put on a Marlin XL7.
It shoots reasonably well. (~1.5 MoA)
However.... it fouls like no barrel I've ever seen before. After just five rounds, the copper fouling is so thick that you can see the wide, prominent copper streaks with the naked eye, in poor lighting.
If you toss 20 rounds down the tube... It's game over. The copper covers the entire circumference of the bore and is so thick that you can actually see chunks of it stuck to the lands.
Right now, that barrel is undergoing its seventh application of BoreTech Eliminator (a very good copper remover), and I don't expect the patches to come out clean. It's very likely that I'll still have raw copper staring me in the face after I run some patches through the barrel.
Bad, bad, bad, very low quality rifling, in my opinion....
Buy one again? ...Not likely.
minuteOhog
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They were always really friendly with me and none of my barrels from them foul like that. I'd give them a call and see what they say about it.