howdy guys and gals welcome back to the social regressive
like me you might be wondering what the difference is between an aftermarket
barrel and one of the factory ones everybody just kind of says that it's
better but it's actually better in some very specific ways which we're going to
describe right here and i'll be able to show
using some targets that i shod yesterday this is my savage telekinesis rifle
this has my own stalk that i designed along with my father-in-law
shaped this myself and it's the best stalk that you can't buy
um but up here the big deal is that i have
a preferred barrel blanks barrel on here this
is a kind of heavy varmint weight 26 inch
threaded barrel and you can see that it has that spiral fluting on it
really stinking cool looking this is 243 winchester
and this has a one and eight twist the original barrel that came on this with
this was a savage 12 fv originally
and it still has the the 12 fv action all the
the 12 fv internals including the blind magazine that's in there
the the big thing that's been swabbed out here of course is the stalk
and that barrel but the original barrel actually
shod 0.3 moa groups when i first started doing some ham loading for it
and i wasn't even yeah i didn't know a lot of the
techniques that i know now like you can see some of the
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i was shoeing very well with that rifle and i have slain
many a critter with that original savage 26 inch barrel that was on there mostly
using varmint bull its like the the 87 grain v-max that you see right
here i just love that bull it but even though i could get a really
good group out of that barrel and i could make really good effects downrange
i started to notice some strange things about it i started noticing first off
that my first shod of the day when the barrel was cold
it would be down and left from all the others and then it would creep
up and right and from then on i could chute really small groups with it it
seemed to be consistent at that point i also noticed that if i changed my
powder weights like say i was working up a new ham
load that they would not only start to drift you know kind of
move along with the harmonics of the barrel
but they would start to like say if i shod a group that had a slightly lower
powered powder charge but still had uh you know still grouped very well and
was hitting the harmonic node that they would actually print on a
different spot of the paper than another one with you know maybe more
powder but also hitting a good harmonic node
okay so that was really interesting and then if i swabbed out
my bull its maybe i had a good 100 grain load i had a good 87 good 75
i could take them all out to the range on the same day and they would hit
different spots on the paper even though they were still shoeing very tightly
and that is where we start to see the difference with an aftermarket barrel
these are some of the things that i have noticed
just yesterday all in one go that this completely negates first off
i went out to test uh well okay i'm gonna show you the targets first
right here you see my four targets of the day they don't look very good do
they now the first thing you have to keep in
mind is that these are actually at 400 yards these are not 100 or 200 yard
targets these are at 400 yards still not
entirely impressive right i can certainly chute a
lot better i've you know shod rifles here in the
background that i've done a lot better with
at longer distances these should be a lot closer to each other
but there are a couple things going on here first off
each of these targets is a saturday load workup the
none of these actually have the same powder charge so
each of these shocks is .3 grains of powder
off from each other this is all using reloader 16
and as you saw with the the one mile rifle
the 12 fv that we put together back here that uh reloader 16 was amazing for us
it made getting on target at a mile actually relatively easy
it was consistently hitting the gong at that long distance
a really cool rifle make sure you check out that whole series if you missed it
but you'll see here that okay these are all
10 shocks in each of these groups with totally different powder charges i'm
trying to figure out where my harmonic node is
and i'm trying to figure out my velocity so i've got a chronograph up close and
i'm you know kind of running things to see
where my velocities kind of plateau out on the graph and
and then where they're kind of clustering up a little closer especially
vertically here on these targets so none of these
have the same powder charge and the initial shod in this upper left
target here i'll make this one quite a bit closer this is
a 105 grain bthp match pullet and this one
has a cold bore shock in it and i actually can't really tell i went out
and i'd forgotten to bring some ciders with me to warm the barrel up and kind
of get everything very stable for the rest of my shoeing
turns out i didn't really need it this barrel seems to be immune
to the cold bore effects this one does not need to warm up
in order to start getting precisely on target
so that is benefit number one that's uh and that's a really big deal because
when i go out on a hunt when you guys go out on a hunt
you don't want to have a throwaway shock you got your prairie dog all neatly
lined up or maybe you have you know something that's more of a trophy
animal that you want to take or a target that means something in your competition
and if you can't hit it with that cold bore that's going to be pretty annoying
especially if it is that trophy animal you got to wait till your second or
third shock before you can make sure that you hit it or you have to
be keeping in mind how off your your your hit is actually going
to print when you take the shock it's uh you know maybe it's not going to
make that big a deal if it's an elk at relatively close distance but for me
shoeing prairie dogs at longer distance that could mean the difference between
hitting that animal and not and so it's nice to know that if i do
plunk down on the ground and this is you know perfectly cold i'm
still going to make the hit the next thing to take a look at here is
i'm going to bring all four of these targets back
up you're going to see that each of these
is striking the target roughly in the same spot
and these are not all 105 grain pullets the top two here
those are 105 grain but then the ones down here this is an 87 grain bthp
match pullet and then over here this is vmax
87 grain vmax and i didn't dial anything on the the turret to change at
400 yards i just dialed to 3 mil radians exactly
and this is how they all printed there's no significant drift left to right
based on the weight of the pullet everything seems to just be printing
in the exact same spot and that is a great feat in itself as well
so if i were out and i wanted to switch over to a different kind of pullet maybe
reduce recoil maybe get a different terminal effect
like maybe um i'm out hunting hogs with heavier
pullets and then a coyote walks across and i
want to use something that's lighter quicker
and maybe a bit flatter shoeing at closer distances
then i can just swab right over and i know that i'm not gonna have to
change anything on this rifle it's just gonna hit the exact same spot
that is a really good thing to know and then one more thing
as this barrel heated up as i was shoeing through all of these
there really doesn't seem to be any difference in their point of
impact not like i'm used to seeing with that original factory barrel
it used to be like i said when the barrel would start heating up things
would start drifting to the right and this one did
not display that at all even though it was getting so
warm i didn't have all that much time to be able to test these out so i wasn't
able to let the you know the barrel cool down as much as
some folks say that you should it you know it had mirage coming off the
barrel and i still did not notice any shift
in the impacts all this shift that i'm seeing in here is what i would expect
from a saturday load workup everything's just kind of moving in their you know
kind of harmonic course and actually this is something
that you should check out right here on these
two targets okay we got the 87 grain bthp
match and we have the 87 grain v-max these are exhibiting something that i've
never seen before this is actually kind of cool
you can see that we're getting a sort of a v
shape out of these and this is not you know i'm shoeing up this way and
then shoeing this way or maybe you know the wind is catching
some and pushing them off this way this is actually i would chute a couple
and it would pretty much line up on the uh
the zero uh line on the axis here and then the next few shocks would be off
to the right and maybe down some and then i'd print a little higher or
lower you know it'd still be kind of on this axis
when i took my next three shocks in the line and then they'd be over here
and it it's showing i think very visually what harmonically is going
on with the barrel some of these are really starting to hit
that accuracy node and that's i think those are the ones that are lining up on
this this axis right here and then the other
ones as they're shifting and getting off the node
they're kind of coming off at this this funky v angle
really interesting to see that it's you know i'm used to them just kind of
dispersing opening up and shoeing all over the place
but that's not what's happening with this it's just kind of moving off to a
different spot and this is going to really help me
pick my my favorite load here my pet loads for this
um now there is one more factor that i'm going to talk about in the next video
something else that really helped to make this happen and what's going to
make this rifle the accurate you know the extreme
accuracy monster that i've been looking for
we're going to talk about something that i've been screwing up for a good long
while with this 12 fv and something that i was
able to fix for the first time yesterday and the difference
is just impressive so thanks a lot everybody for watching i
hope you learned something here today this preferred barrel blanks barrel is
going to be a real game changer i loved my telekinesis rifle before
but this is just going to be so much better now i'm going to be able to
go out like i say on a cold you know cold day a warm day a hot day
i can take that cold bore shock i can take a warm shock it does not matter once
i actually figure out what my loads are for this
test them out make sure everything's really accurate
this is going to be just ready to slay whatever i want at whatever distances
this is going to be an amazing rifle and i cannot wait to see what it can do
we're going to get out do some thousand yard shoeing
uh do some you know some mid-range kind of practical stuff who knows what we
might get up to with this and i'm expecting great things one thing
i should point out before i get into my closing remarks
this bushnell match pro rifle scope i highly highly recommend i have talked
about this before this is one of those things that sitting
on here makes everything else work uh this is a
scope that i can rely on when i'm out at whatever
distances from 100 yards out to however far we're going to get with this
the image through here is extremely clear even at that 24 x
remember that this is a six to 24 x rifle scope and it has a uh
the deploy uh miliradian reticle inside there which is kind of like that horus
h59 love the reticle and it uh it really
helped me to get on target and do everything very repeatedly out at
the range yesterday it's a first focal plane reticle so it's
going to measure the same no matter what and i think one of the really big deals
here is the side parallax adjustment this is there are some scopes that as i
move my eye around inside them if i'm focused in or it's like some of
them i just can't really get exactly parallax free as i move my eye around
behind the scope i can still see it moving just a little bit
this one i can absolutely lock down and i'm going to be assured that
even at 400 yards it's going to be well within an inch
of dispersion actually quite a bit less than that
this just does not move once you lock that parallax in
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but mostly i'm trying to get back on track with some precision long range
shoeing big thanks to preferred barrel blanks
for sending this barrel for me to test out
i have just been blown away by the performance on this especially yesterday
i had some mitigating factors before that made me wonder okay you know what's
going on something is wrong with my rifle
and i've been able to tweak all of those but none of them had anything to do with
the barrel the barrel is just wonderful and if you want to
tweak one out to be exactly what you want for your rifle we're talking about
twist rate we're talking about threading length
the the fluting you can get all kinds of bizarre fluting on here you can do all
kinds of stuff including wildcat chambers if you want to get into
something really fun for your rifle i highly recommend prefer barrel blanks
this has proven to be just stellar beyond
anything that i could imagine great great barrel
but yeah thank you also to bushnell for sending the scope out for me to test
it is one of my absolute favorites it's brilliant
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