11-08-2020, 07:51 PM
Mark and a couple others (brownells?) have some criterion barrels, not the Lilja quality but an affordable and pretty accurate - better than faxon.
I had a couple faxons in grendel and well, Vascar's right about rack grade, maybe good, maybe not so much...
Now I've got a 20" lilja and it shoots much better, and better than I do. Real happy with it.
With the better BC's and wider range of good bullets you can get anything 16-20" and they will do you well.
And 100 gr (like the nosler bt or the ttsx) out to 129 nosler ABLR, 'course the main standard is the 123 sst.
Any one of these can go out to 225 yds no problem for the 100 grainers in 16" barrel.
the 123 Sst and 129 Ablr can go 250+ with the heavier wt and higher KE.
So you have a lot of possibilities.
18" - 20" will go even better.
But definitely get the better barrel, best you can go with.
Then it's trigger group, and optics. The rest just holds everything together.
ps, another old Navy guy, up in NOVA...
I had a couple faxons in grendel and well, Vascar's right about rack grade, maybe good, maybe not so much...
Now I've got a 20" lilja and it shoots much better, and better than I do. Real happy with it.
With the better BC's and wider range of good bullets you can get anything 16-20" and they will do you well.
And 100 gr (like the nosler bt or the ttsx) out to 129 nosler ABLR, 'course the main standard is the 123 sst.
Any one of these can go out to 225 yds no problem for the 100 grainers in 16" barrel.
the 123 Sst and 129 Ablr can go 250+ with the heavier wt and higher KE.
So you have a lot of possibilities.
18" - 20" will go even better.
But definitely get the better barrel, best you can go with.
Then it's trigger group, and optics. The rest just holds everything together.
ps, another old Navy guy, up in NOVA...
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