Oldboy 7mm Dakota wrote:Warrigul
I agree with you totally about hunting and a sporter lighter in the field but as I said if you want to use a rifle for target practice and everything else a heavier barrel is better.
My boy and I shoot a lot of steel from 500 to 1500 yards and we would kill a sporting barrel . Barrel life on the Dakota wont be great as it is pushing a 180 berger at 3220 fps, hope to get 1200 plus and when it dyes will go 26 " not 28 this time.
I was going to build a 375 cheytac on a 408 stiller I had but decided to swap it for 300 stiller and build a 338 edge instead as the cheytac was going to come in at around 24lb and I wasn't to keen on carting that around the scrub to find some where to sit and wait and most of the good spots are not assessable by vehicle.Edge should coming around 15 still heavy but. But manageable for a 1/2 hour walk to a good spot to sit and wait.
Oldboy 7mm Dakota
Look, I have fullbore, varmint and F class rifles, and have shot them all to a high competitive standard,but honestly I think long distance, heavy barrelled exotic toy rifles, barrel life and 1500m steel targets are just not relevant.
Neither does a half hour stroll to a stand count as walk around hunting.
This is way too far of topic for me, see ya.