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j.chappell · November 26, 2008, 12:45 PM

Swampy1,

I see and understand what you are saying.

I was looking into case capacities and powder chardges and I see the point. I have just never noticed it in any of my rifles after many, many, rounds. Then again all of my shooting is informal, not timed, and not from custom built rifles.

I do have a few varmint rifles that shoot .3's and .4's and the occasional .2 when the planets align, lol, but not on a regular basis, and never a timed event.

I just doubt that in my shooting that I will see one of my .5" 243's lose that much accuracy that it will matter to me as I am not shooting competitions.

I believe that my thousand rounds and a competitors thousand rounds would effect a rifle differently as I have all the time in the world to fire mine when compared to a timed event. If I am wrong please correct me.

Also a increase from .5" to .7" is not going to upset me, you know. To a competitor that extra two inches is unexceptable put to your informal shooter not that big of a deal.

J.

November 26, 2008, 12:45 PM	#23
j.chappell Senior Member Join Date: October 14, 2008 Posts: 1,125	Swampy1, I see and understand what you are saying. I was looking into case capacities and powder chardges and I see the point. I have just never noticed it in any of my rifles after many, many, rounds. Then again all of my shooting is informal, not timed, and not from custom built rifles. I do have a few varmint rifles that shoot .3's and .4's and the occasional .2 when the planets align, lol, but not on a regular basis, and never a timed event. I just doubt that in my shooting that I will see one of my .5" 243's lose that much accuracy that it will matter to me as I am not shooting competitions. I believe that my thousand rounds and a competitors thousand rounds would effect a rifle differently as I have all the time in the world to fire mine when compared to a timed event. If I am wrong please correct me. Also a increase from .5" to .7" is not going to upset me, you know. To a competitor that extra two inches is unexceptable put to your informal shooter not that big of a deal. J.