In another 20 years...

[The Hedgehog]

New owner of a Deadair 30.
Haven't decided if I want to thread my .308 or maybe sell a gun/ buy a gun.
Thinking about adding a 7.08 and selling my Sendero.
So my tech question, because I'm lazy and don't feel like phone research...if I bought a 7.08 and threaded it, am I forced to always using the can, or is there an adapter to screw on the threads to shoot the rifle without can? Hypothetically, use the can at range, but hunt without can.
Does this present accuracy issues jumping back and forth? I recall observations of nominal velocity change.
Could this scenario only truly be understood by shooting and seeing?
Guess i am trolling for feedback to help process options.
Thanks.

Come over sometime with a 6 pack of green cans.

 

[Hem]

Come over sometime with a 6 pack of green cans.

How about a shopping cart full of Pacifico?

 

[The Hedgehog]

How about a shopping cart full of Pacifico?

Just don’t spend too much on that piss water. You’ll want to keep your steadiness while shooting in my garage.

 

[sccritterkiller]

I just don’t see how it helps me for hunting deer and elk.
If I was trying to shoot multiple coyotes or wild pigs at a time would maybe make sense.

Correct, spotting your impacts thru your scope and the audible sound of hit are highly overrated.

To answer the OP
20 yrs from now, if not before I will need a new barrel. I will make the call then on barrel length.
Until then I will not rest to every rifle barrel in my safe is 20" or shorter.

 

[The Hedgehog]

Correct, spotting your impacts thru your scope and the audible sound of hit are highly overrated.

To answer the OP
20 yrs from now, if not before I will need a new barrel. I will make the call then on barrel length.
Until then I will not rest to every rifle barrel in my safe is 20" or shorter.

I also prefer the sonic boom, and seeing a herd of animals turn inside out to scatter after the sound of a shot, as opposed to standing around and calming feeding.

 

[Hem]

Just don’t spend too much on that piss water. You’ll want to keep your steadiness while shooting in my garage.

I was all frantic to stock up.

 

[gemihur]

hearing protection is more than a good idea

 

[Mtnhunter1]

hearing protection is more than a good idea
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Hearing protection and a tight grip! Nice Contender!

 

[Wind Gypsy]

I'll ask again why shorten the barrel? Is it to get to a point where there is sufficient barrel thickness to run threads for the can?

Because carrying a rifle around with 32" of metal in front of the action sucks. Both from a moving around obstructions standpoint and from a rifle balance standpoint.

How many factory rifles have pencil thin barrels these days.

"Pencil thin barrel" isn't a defined term far as I know so hard to answer such a question. Lots of light contour sporter barrels have plenty of diameter for threads. Never seen one that's only 7mm or thinner though.

 

[mtmuley]

Example III: I paid $800 for a Remington KS Custom Mountain Rifle, 280 Rem. The seller wanted something that he could run a "can" on....

Nice grab. Awesome rifles. mtmuley

 

[Potsie]

To the OP, will I regret it? Hell No.


Cut vs uncut

 

[mtmuley]

To the OP, will I regret it? Hell No.

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Cut vs uncut

I like the one on the left. mtmuley

 

[TheJason]

I was all frantic to stock up.

I just bought a case Saturday afternoon.

 

[Potsie]

I like the one on the left. mtmuley

Wise man once said - “it ain’t for everybody.”

 

[Hem]

I just bought a case Saturday afternoon.

Actually I was kidding.
I'm mostly off beer for awhile.
Gotta bank up a few non beer days before I pay a visit to the @The Hedgehog

 

[antelopedundee]

Because carrying a rifle around with 32" of metal in front of the action sucks. Both from a moving around obstructions standpoint and from a rifle balance standpoint.



"Pencil thin barrel" isn't a defined term far as I know so hard to answer such a question. Lots of light contour sporter barrels have plenty of diameter for threads. Never seen one that's only 7mm or thinner though.

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I was using it as an expression. I recall seeing .300 Weatherby mag barrels that looked to me to be too thin. Every barrel that I ever bought was .625 at the muzzle or at least #4. I know that they're no as thin as a pencil.

 

[Mtnhunter1]

Nice grab. Awesome rifles. mtmuley

Yes, they are very nice rifles.

A younger man inherited it from his Grandpa. His Grandpa ordered it to take on a B.C. hunt in 1991. The rifle's proof stamping shows August of 1990. I asked him what he thought it was worth and he replied, "I'm hoping to get at least $600 but I know that nobody wants a 280 Rem anymore". I handed him $800 and told him good luck with his new rifle quest.

I only wish that it had a longer LOP. It's a bit short for me. Brown Precision stock, Remington switched to McMillan mid to late 1991.

 

[jmcd]

To the OP, will I regret it? Hell No.

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Cut vs uncut

Looking at those side by side makes me think a suppressed rifle would be tough to get in and out of a horse scabbard. Anyone have any experience?