Cooling rifle barrel

[steve_b_wales]

I've just seen/read on facebook about a guy who found a quick way of cooling his rifle barrel when on the range. He used a 6v air bed inflator with a length of rubber tubing pushed into the breech end of the rifle. He said it was a bit noisy but worked well.

[wyn]

I use a milwaukee cordless blower with a bit of pipe.

 

[Walker570]

I try not to fire that many rounds anyway.

[steve_b_wales]

3 minutes ago, Walker570 said:

I try not to fire that many rounds anyway.

I fire quite a lot of rounds on the range, but it's mostly damp, cloudy or wet, so not so much an issue.

[THEINVISIBLESCARECROW]

I just go slow & steady, don't let the barrel over heat to start with.

[scarecrow243]

just do what they do in war times **** on the barrel to cool it  🤣😂😎

[London Best]

On 06/09/2022 at 18:59, THEINVISIBLESCARECROW said:

I just go slow & steady, don't let the barrel over heat to start with.

This.

Stop belting rounds down range as if it’s a war. You will save a fortune on ammo, not to mention rebarrelling.

[THEINVISIBLESCARECROW]

10 hours ago, London Best said:

This.

Stop belting rounds down range as if it’s a war. You will save a fortune on ammo, not to mention rebarrelling.

Rebarrelling or scrapping ?? My base knowledge is the hotter metal gets the softer it becomes so barrel wear increases with heat. Barrel wear happens anyway, why speed up that process?

[Houseplant]

Without inflators or other contraptions, how long do you leave a barrel to cool? I know it's a how-long-is-a-piece-of-string question, but let's just say a not too hot or cold day, standard hunting-style barrel.

[oowee]

2 hours ago, THEINVISIBLESCARECROW said:

Rebarrelling or scrapping ?? My base knowledge is the hotter metal gets the softer it becomes so barrel wear increases with heat. Barrel wear happens anyway, why speed up that process?

I am sure that's right but...........When we used to go to the ranges we were not allowed to return with ammo so it all had to be fired. One day I remember putting many hundreds of rounds through a bren as fast as ten people could load the mags. The barrel was literally glowing red. It clearly was not the first time it was done. 

I would not do it with my own rifle 3 shots is plenty 🙂  

[enfieldspares]

For me a stalking rifle MUST be able to group five rounds fired in under three minutes into under three inches at one hundred yards. That's an easy result for any decent weapon. If they do two inches I am happy enough.

[Walker570]

8 hours ago, enfieldspares said:

For me a stalking rifle MUST be able to group five rounds fired in under three minutes into under three inches at one hundred yards. That's an easy result for any decent weapon. If they do two inches I am happy enough.

At most.  If I check zero on any of my rifles if the first one is where I know it should have gone when the gun went bang then that will do.  We used to 'call the shot' shooting at a sheet of paper with one inch squares and fireing on minimum setting you fired a shot and said where it had landed. All the squares had costs...10p   50p and a £ which you had to pay up if you hit any other square to the one called.   This made you concentrate on where those crosshairs where when the rifle went 'BANG'.  Good fun.

 

I had a friend who could never believe the shot he had fired was on target and would fire another then another adjusting hin scope each time and finished chasing them around the target..  

 I remeber having to take a shot at target in Wyoming before going after an antelope.  The target was on a cliff maybe 250yrds away and the guide asked me to take a shot at it.  It was far enough away he took his ATV to check, and on returning said..."Let's go hunt".   The 300H&H had put a neat hole right in the centre of the 2 inch orange dot much to MY amazement.  No need for wasting another round....that one secured my antelope.