Thread: Shooting a couple of 338s

Originally Posted by Hendrik470

Why did you re-barrel the Barret?

Because the factory barrel was a piece of shit, they are sending be another one apparently but I will be 90 before it getts here, bloody hopeless yanks.

It has as least two radial rings in the chamber & it is so over sized that I have split 3 Redding & a Hornady die resizing Normal brass.

It has/had radial machining marks visable in the muzzle, also a larger diameter drill will go into the muzzle than my other 4-5 338 barrels

It copper fouled like a complete mother fucker right from the start, I tried every thing, it still did after 6-700 rounds, that's a hell of a lot of $$$ in rounds alone.

It did shoot well until it fouled & then it took 5-7 rounds to settle down after cleaning, then after 15-20 it would need cleaning again..

It won't even stabilise 225s now.

Other than that I really like it, as cool as they come very functional if a little heavy, nice 10 round mags & case.

I imported it myself & it owed me less than I could get a TRG from the usual places, it probably owes me a little more than a TRG now

It shoots quite well now for the platform that it is, probably will never be as accurate as a "normal" bolt action.

I'm very impressed with the Norma round & will see how it goes at distance in a few days