Barrel length and twist rate for .308

[ICANHITHIMMAN]

I have looked through several barrels and the two I listed keep coming up in discussions with shooters at my local club who shoot long range (1000 yard) competition, several of which I personally know and were snipers for the Marines and Army. If you have others to recommend, please do as I have not built the rifle and still have time for research. Thank you.

Brux, Lilja, hart(of NY), Pac Nor, there are a lot more but these are the ones I have used. I made the barrel profile mistake once, The barrel litterly shot the best of any barrel I have ever had but it was useless for anything but prone shooting. I will never again pic any barrel larger than a sendero profile, thats about .850 at the muzzle.

I also like long barrels its just me, I like to get every bit of speed I can and I think they look good. Of the 3 rifles in 308win I have, I always go with a 1-10 twist. I like to play with a lot of bullet weights and prefer heavy bullets.

The barrels take the longest to come for some reason, unless you buy one that the builder has just lying around.

Do you have a gunsmith? Thats another factor, the better the smith the longer the wait.

Jon

[taliv]

5 of my last 6 barrels were bartlein and the other was brux.

If you order from the maker it will take a while and it depends on where you catch them in the their production schedule since most make a run of 6 then 6.5 then 7 then 7.62 etc before going back. (not necessarily in that order of course)

However you can almost always find them in stock at retail places. I bought my Bartleins from Accuracyone because they always have had them in stock. Grizzly also keeps them in stock.

[hotrodder636]

Brux, Lilja, hart(of NY), Pac Nor, there are a lot more but these are the ones I have used. I made the barrel profile mistake once, The barrel litterly shot the best of any barrel I have ever had but it was useless for anything but prone shooting. I will never again pic any barrel larger than a sendero profile, thats about .850 at the muzzle.

I also like long barrels its just me, I like to get every bit of speed I can and I think they look good. Of the 3 rifles in 308win I have, I always go with a 1-10 twist. I like to play with a lot of bullet weights and prefer heavy bullets.

The barrels take the longest to come for some reason, unless you buy one that the builder has just lying around.

Do you have a gunsmith? Thats another factor, the better the smith the longer the wait.

Jon

Thank you for the info. You have now brought in something I hadn't been thinking about and that is the profile. I do have a smith, I have shot some of the rifles he has built and they are quite nice. I was thinking of 175 grain SMKs. Once I get the setup and throw a few hundred factory loads down range, I want to reload my own. I have reloaded thousands of pistol cartridges but no rifle. Again thank you all for the advice so far.

[anthony1]

My 308s have all been 1-10 with one 1-12, l cant tell much of a difference they both shoot 175smks without any problems.

l have always used 26 inch varmint barrels, l dont have any reason to switch. If your not gonna be hunting or lugging the thing around all day l'd get a 24-26 inch barrel in a standard varmint profile which is usually around .890. l also dont care for the huge bull barrel profile.