6.5 Grendel barrel Length?????

[NugginFutz]

NugginFutz,

Let me ask you a question...would you use a slow powder in a short barrel? Most of the common powders are middle toward the slow end of powder burn rate charts.

Pistols use fast burning powders...WHY? Because they have short barrels and to get the most out of your powder charge, you want the last few grains at or near the muzzle.

I hunt out of trucks, blind and stalking through the woods all the time with 26" barrels. It's never cost me a shot nor given any reason to break out a saw to cut it in half.

As a mater of fact, UPS is delivering me a new 26" 6.5x284 varmint contour barrel tomorrow!

Interesting - you clearly illustrate your preferences for longer barrels, and trot out some anecdotes from your personal experience.

Yet, I am still waiting for your citation which backs up your claim that a 12 in. barrel is "burning the bulk of your powder charge in the air outside the muzzle."

I understand you have an opinion to which you are entitled. I do not agree, however, that you can float that opinion as fact without the supporting data.