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Posted by: Hubie 03/26/2002, 08:45:01 |
Just thought folks might be interested in my experience with a Shilen .17 cal bbl. A while back, I built a .17 Ackely Bee on a Martini action, using a Shilen tube. At first, I was not very happy with this rifle. It fouled badly, had to clean after about 5 rounds. (This was after their recommended break-in procedure.) Consequently, the little rifle did not get a lot of use. I would take it out occasionally, and shoot a few rounds, testing various loads, but basically didn't fool with it much. Last weekend, one of the grandkids was up and we went to the range. I had about 40 rounds of a load that did not shoot very well made up, (I don't know why I loaded that many!) so I took the little rifle along and told grandson to burn 'em up. After getting back home, to my great surprise, the bbl cleaned up with only half a dozen or so patches! Maybe this thing is finally "broke in", I've got to get back to it!  |
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Posted by: jim saubier 03/27/2002, 08:12:21 |
SOmetimes it takes longer for a barrel to break-in/season than others. And maybe it needed a longer string of shots like you fired. Hope you get an accurate load worked up for it. What was the load that you are using? I found my best success with R7 and n130 in my Hebee. |
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Posted by: Hubie 03/29/2002, 08:58:37 |
Loads were 13gr 4198, 25gr Hornady. I did some testing, yesterday in fact, with RE7. Just some function/pressure tests, no range work. I'm going to try some at the range, today hopefully, in the 12.7gr range with a 20gr Vmax. I'll probably try 4198 with the 20gr Vmax also. Devlopment work with this little rifle has been a painful/slow process. At first, I had all kinds of problems with split necks. However, I seem to have solved this by annealing after forming. I didn't lose any of this last batch of 50 cases to split necks. Still working on getting a consistent case lenth. For these next round of tests, I've only partially resized the cases, down to about 3/4's of the neck. (Thats the reason for the function testing yesterday, making sure they would feed ok!) |
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