20” 28 nosler

[Baddog]

Need a new barrel on a hunting rifle. Wanna do a 20” suppressed in a 7mm. I know the popular option is 7prc but I love speed and kinda wanna try a 28 nosler. Everyone in my circle says “thats dumb do a 7prc”.
Anyone do a 20” 28 nosler?

 

[Mw01313]

How much of a velocity gain would you predict over the prc with the 28?

 

[TxLite]

The prc already struggles with getting full powder burn in the short barrels. I’m not sure 28 would be able to do it, and might lead to some velocity inconsistencies?

I say do it lol

 

[brockel]

I’d do the 7mm-300 prc at 20”. I’ve got a 300 ultra mag at the smiths being cut to 20” right now.

 

[Buckslyr]

My 28 Nosler has finish length of 20.5” and shoots a 175gr Berger elite at 3005fps with 81 grains of retumbo. Hope this helps your decision. 28 is pretty hard on barrels, so keep that in mind. I’m on my second one.

 

[wapitibob]

26” on my 7stw, very close to the 28 ballistically, then cut to 24, then cut to 20”. Shoots ok but looks odd without a suppressor. New barrel is a 24” benchmark sender light and will chamber 7prc.
The 28 needs a custom reamer, 195’s and n570 to shine and the n570 eats throats. I burned over .100” in 350 shots.

 

[Baddog]

My 28 Nosler has finish length of 20.5” and shoots a 175gr Berger elite at 3005fps with 81 grains of retumbo. Hope this helps your decision. 28 is pretty hard on barrels, so keep that in mind. I’m on my second one.

That’s what I was hoping to hear

 

[Smithb9841]

Need a new barrel on a hunting rifle. Wanna do a 20” suppressed in a 7mm. I know the popular option is 7prc but I love speed and kinda wanna try a 28 nosler. Everyone in my circle says “thats dumb do a 7prc”.
Anyone do a 20” 28 nosler?

I was thinking about this last year and never pulled the trigger. If you end up building one let us know how it turns out and what kind of velocity you get.

 

[Baddog]

So got a Proof 20” installed and got 15 rounds down it today using 162 eldx hornady ammo. Average 3080 FPS according to the garmin. Seems like it will shoot those well from what I saw today. Not much into reloading these days so would like to do something I can buy but can’t decide what to go with for hunting…. Will run another 3-4 boxes of hornady thru it to see if it speeds up at all since they are the most affordable option