02-22-2020, 08:57 PM
Ditto to the above. I have and have shot 16, 18, 20, as well as 12.5 and 22", faxon and nitrided as well as (others) CM/SS, and for the range 16-20" it has usually been 18-25 ft/s/inch. I say usually b/c each barrel has its own MV speeds, due to uniqueness and to such things as internal barrel frictions, so the comparison of two that differ in length won't be exact -- you can't exactly extrapolate but it will fall into that range. Your accuracy nodes for each should also be about that much difference but again it's a process of discovery, each barrel will tell you what it likes as far as MV.
Faxon's barrels are all nitrided IIRC so the MV increase that happens in a chrome-moly or SS over the first 50-150 rounds, doesn't typically happen for the nitrided barrel, it is what it is. Of course YMMV but this is what I've observed.
If MV is your object, get as long of a good quality barrel as you can tote/shoot/take care of. Like you say the delta in oz is not that much (will be a bit more than your 5 oz b/c you typically get a longer HG too).
The Faxon barrels have been good for me (I did move on to better ones though). However, a bad-mfr-barrel, or a cheap one, regardless of the length, is just so much of a tomato stake.
Faxon's barrels are all nitrided IIRC so the MV increase that happens in a chrome-moly or SS over the first 50-150 rounds, doesn't typically happen for the nitrided barrel, it is what it is. Of course YMMV but this is what I've observed.
If MV is your object, get as long of a good quality barrel as you can tote/shoot/take care of. Like you say the delta in oz is not that much (will be a bit more than your 5 oz b/c you typically get a longer HG too).
The Faxon barrels have been good for me (I did move on to better ones though). However, a bad-mfr-barrel, or a cheap one, regardless of the length, is just so much of a tomato stake.
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