6.5 Superlite Barrel Chop

[waldo9190]

Contemplating chopping my 6.5 Superlite barrel. It's currently a hammer with 130 TMKs, but I'm not a big fan of the 24" barrel in the whitetail woods. I have a T3 compact 308 with the 20" barrel that is a joy to carry/hunt with, so I'm thinking about chopping the 6.5 right in front of the flutes at 21"-ish. My Range limit is 500 yards so I'll never shoot game past that, and doing some quick number crunching even with the 21" barrel the TMKs should still be lethal to almost 700 yards depending on elevation.

Should I go ahead and chop it, or leave it with it shooting as good as it does?

 

[AZ_Hunter]

Chop it. This is a 16” chopped super light 6.5 CM. Slaughtered this elk at 302 yards.

ETA: this was also with 130gr TMK on top of 45.5 of Staball 6.5 for 2750 fps at muzzle. 3 shots, two pass through and one caught in office hide. 78gr recovery with meat, so maybe 70ish gr of bullet left. Massive trauma.

 

[thinhorn_AK]

May superlite 6.5 is out getting cut and threaded right now. Im looking forward to getting it back, I'm not worried at all about velocity loss.

 

[Samson7x]

May superlite 6.5 is out getting cut and threaded right now. Im looking forward to getting it back, I'm not worried at all about velocity loss.

What length did you go with? Into the flutes are just before they start? Wondering how it looks/functions chopped into the fluting.

 

[Samson7x]

Chop it. This is a 16” chopped super light 6.5 CM. Slaughtered this elk at 302 yards.

ETA: this was also with 130gr TMK on top of 45.5 of Staball 6.5 for 2750 fps at muzzle. 3 shots, two pass through and one caught in office hide. 78gr recovery with meat, so maybe 70ish gr of bullet left. Massive trauma.

No issues chopping into the fluting? Who did the work?

 

[thinhorn_AK]

What length did you go with? Into the flutes are just before they start? Wondering how it looks/functions chopped into the fluting.

I went 18", they are going to cut into the flutes and make a shoulder so I can direct thread my 5/8x24 silencer.

 

[Samson7x]

I went 18", they are going to cut into the flutes and make a shoulder so I can direct thread my 5/8x24 silencer.

I'd be curious to see pics when you get it back if you get a chance to post. Who is doing the work?

 

[Colby]

I have a couple cut to 20” with a bushing.

 

[TreeDog]

LWhat length did you go with? Into the flutes are just before they start? Wondering how it looks/functions chopped into the fluting.

Had mine cut to 18" into the flutes. Rocksett and adapter on and called it good.

 

[OneShot]

Had mine cut to 20” into the flutes a few months ago with 5/8 thread