Thanks, I could shave maybe one more half ounce with a ton of tiny holes, but I think I'll leave it alone for now. I've been talking with LRI gunsmithing and they can shave another 2 oz or so by taking off material closer to the chamber, but I think I'm done here. I might send off my unfluted 6.5cm, as they can knock off about 4 oz with fluting and 'reprofiling'. Here's a pic of the 6.5 wearing my 'cheesy' stock. It's about to lose 4 oz via changing the 6x loopy to a 2.5x, so down to 4.25 pounds if I have LRI go after it (about $300). Decided I only need the 6.5 to be my 300 yard gun, so the 2.5x scope with suffice.
What ya naming it? The Swiss (cheese)?
6.5 SC
Good luck on the hunt! I don't think I posted the first blood with the 22cm barrel in this thread, so I might as well. A little (500ish pound) 5 point for the freezer this year. This one has a good story, because I'm pretty sure we got on this bull 3-4 years ago. It's hard to tell in the pic, but it's a medium sized bull with a disproportionately small rack. We noticed him before opening day those years ago, and I always hoped to track him down someday, but had pretty much forgotten about him. Well, I had no idea when I shot him (bedded from 300ish yards) that he had a little rack, just saw antlers and blasted him as usual. Well, his teeth showed that he was actually an old elk, luckily still fat and healthy. But, he was just a small guy, genetics or a rough start I'd guess. When my buddy finishes the euro mount process I'll try to get a pic that shows more of the story.
I weighed this out once, between a mountain ascent barrel and a hunter barrel, both in 308, cut to 16 inches, the difference was 1.4oz for the flutes.
They can go deeper with the smaller calibers, but isn't yours a .308? Kampfeld advised me not flute my 6.5cm, so I didn't. But, now that it's my 300 yard and in gun, I'm not worried about a little loss of accuracy. I probably won't carry my suppressor on the spring trips, so without that weight on the end I don't think the wippy-concerns are needed. It'll mostly be a short range elk gun for my buddy, and a goat defense wilderness gun, so if it went to 2 moa no problem.
That's pretty useful, because you can add about 2oz for the reprofiling, which is mostly taking out material near the chamber. If what they told me over the phone is accurate, it was only about $250 for both fluting and reprofile, which surprised me.
Well, I was shooting for sub moa accuracy at 500 yards with a suppressor at the time, so that might explain it?
Factory Kimber Hunter, rebored to 358 Win by JES, fluted by Karl Kampfeld.
