02-10-2012, 05:34 AM
It sounds like wise choices to me. You would have a very good hunting rig with more than sufficient accuracy. The Shilen is a very good hand lapped barrel but it is button rifled. Button rifled barrels can be and usually are as accurate as cut rifle barrels of the same quality but will have a shorter accuracy life by around half. If a cut rifle barrel delivers 8,000 rounds of acceptable accuracy, a button rifle barrel may deliver around 4,000 rounds before it's time to change it out. This a generalization and not exact. I have a cut rifle barrel with over 9,000 round on it that will still hold .5 MOA at 100 yards but it is no longer accurate at 600 yards as an example.
Bob
Bob