sungazer wrote:Just based on my Remington 700 SPS with the 24 inch Varmint barrel. It was about 1 -1.5 moa at best. The chambers are Factory read big and sloppy. The shorter barrel IMHO will limit the accuracy at longer ranges Ok out to about 300m probably.
In terms of accuracy, the only difference should be the shorter barrel will wipe a little bit of velocity off, so yes for F-class style applications it wouldn't be as effective. But < 500m accuracy should be pretty similar, albeit a bit more of a rainbow. Oh and of course it'll be less pleasant to shoot due to increased recoil But I hardly ever shoot max loads mainly due to the fact that you simply can't with cast-lead projectiles, and most of the time there's no point.