Rifle barrels

[Gunlaker]

I have three Ron Smith barrels right now Kurt. One is a .38-50 gain twisted and shoots breech seated PP bullets very well. Another has yet to be used, it's a gain twist .38-55 on a CPA rifle that I want to shoot 200 yard benchrest with. I haven't shot that rifle yet but might tomorrow.

The third is a .32-40 that I shoot greasers in. Not sure if it's a gain twist, but it is very smooth ( BP fouling cleans up extremely easily ), maybe because it's 25 years old :-). It's very accurate unless I'm having a day where my trigger pull is out to lunch :-)

I don't know if they are any better than a straight twist though. If they are, I'm not good enough to tell the difference.

The Green Mountain is impressing me though. I finally had a chance to shoot i past 200m last weekend. We got it on the 600m, 700m, and 800m gongs and it looks like it likely holds accuracy well at longer distances. I don't have any idea how badly things can go wrong past 880 yards, but I feel more confident about the thing now.

Chris.