28" Bergara .243 Chronographed

[A Burr]

Bought a 28" .243 playmate for the 20" 460 S+W Encore. Chronographed the Winchester 95 gr SBT factory loads. 3107 fps. I am most likely going to cut the barrel to 24". Has anyone shot this load through a chronograph in a 24" gun barrel? The 28" barrel just looks funky long.

[DaddyPaul]

How's the barrel group or have you been to the range yet?

[A Burr]

It is at the gunsmith's as we speak being cut and crowned to 23". I will then mount a Nikon Monarch 2.5X-10X BDC with Deadnutz mounts and sight it in with the factory 95 gr Win SBT. I will make new chrono readings with the 23" barrel and post. Maybe this weekend. I will probably take the .460 S+W barrel and do the same with it.

[A Burr]

Got it back. Ten shots averaged 3043 fps with factory Winchester Supreme 95 gr SBT out of the newly cut and crowned barrel. That is a loss of 64 fps about 12.8 fps per inch. I only shot 1 three shot group it was 26mm which is about a 1.09 inch group. I shot off of sand bags on a wobbly table.

[Odinbreaker]

I shot 85 gr barnes with a 28 inch fluted TC pro hunter barrel at over 3400.  I was not loading close to max.