Rebarreling my 270 wsm

[Tim Johnson]

Ok this question is for the gun nuts
I’ve had my tikka t3 270 WSM for 15 years and now I’m thinking about a rebarrel im thinking about a 26” lilja in a 1/8 or 1/7.5 twist my goal is to shoot the 165 or 170 gr bullets im thinking pretty straight forward or will I have a over all length problem….please help

 

[Billy Goat]

Probably better in firearm forum.

 

[J.B.]

Ok this question is for the gun nuts
I’ve had my tikka t3 270 WSM for 15 years and now I’m thinking about a rebarrel im thinking about a 26” lilja in a 1/8 or 1/7.5 twist my goal is to shoot the 165 or 170 gr bullets im thinking pretty straight forward or will I have a over all length problem….please help

Assuming you reload, build a few dummies at max coal for your mag, and see how they feed.

I ran 170 bergers in a long action for a long time at 3.100 coal. A hot load of h1000 shot them at 3100 fps out of a 26” benchmark bbl.