20" or 26" That is the question

[erudne]

My friend has a Rem ACC SD, it's a POS.
From the trigger to the stock to the finish it is far inferior to the Savage and it has required several $100 in improvements to make it shoot to an acceptable level

 

[PaulB47]

In the old days it was simpler. Magnums were 26", non magnums were 22". What was wrong with that?

 

[Boboclown]

In the old days it was simpler. Magnums were 26", non magnums were 22". What was wrong with that?

Time passed and we learned that shorter barrels can perform more than some are capable.

 

[brian niziol]

I'm sure since it's been 3 years since their last post, and your post above, they won't find you confrontational at all.

Since it happened 30 years ago 3 years is a blink of an eye.

 

[orygun]

Don't want to be confrontational but while I have never had a bullet bounce of an elk I shot at a moose and was pretty darn sure I hit it. It was a cow moose that was bedding down. It stood up and I fired at between 200 and 250 meters. The moose walked away with no apparent injury. I found the bullet which looked like it had never been fired laying on the frozen snow where the moose was laying down. The bullet a imperial 130 grain saber tip (some kind of nylon tip on it) .270 Winchester. From a browning auto rifle which on a cold day say below -30 was nothing more than single shot. While the bullet did not bounce off it simply dropped to the ground right below where the moose was standing. Never seen anything like that or never will. What happened I do not know. But it did happen. It was pretty cold maybe -40. But I have taken lots of game in the dead of winter with that very rifle using that very same ammo.

That's very strange. I wonder what exactly happened.

My comment about the bullet bouncing off was a tongue in cheek comment about some guy that was telling some tall tales about that time. Mark W's comment was worded like the tall tales, but I knew he was not the story teller.

 

[orygun]

In the new days it is better, we still have those choice plus a whole lot more.

But we don't have the "romance" of those by gone days.
I do agree, we have so many choices that it makes your head spin.

 

[Member 5605]

20" Rem700 SPS

Tula ammo. Not hand loads. They throw a massive fireball as you can see.

 

[balaperdida]

Secrets of the Houston Warehouse

Only Hanfordites will understand this. Save T-Plant!! 800 feet unobstructed surrounded by at least three feet of concrete. At least, that was the way it was in 1964. Purex is longer, but I never spent any time in the over-cell gallery, and it might be razed by now.

 

[P7M13]

I shoot a Savage FCP-K 308 with a 24" barrel. Last time I shot it, the first 5 shots were all touching at 100 yards. Because it's ~11lbs outfitted, it makes no sense to try to hunt with it. If I bought another 308, it would be stainless with a 20" barrel for hunting.