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Gil Martin Super Member
Joined: Jan 28, 2005 Posts: 1837 Location: Schnecksville, PA
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Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2006 5:08 am Post subject: Midway barrels |
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I have acquired several Adams & Bennett barrels in various calibers from Midway and have been very pleased with their performance. To date, I have rebarreled a Kar98k sporter with a bad bore into a 7x57mm Mauser, a 1903 Springfield sporter became a .280 Remington, an FN Mauser is now also a .280, a Krag is getting a .30-06 barrel rethreaded and rechambered into .30/40 and a Springfield 1903-A3 sporter will become a .338-06.
These are budget-priced barrels that are medium contour and threaded for a'98 Mauser. The local gunsmith really likes the barrels and they shoot as good as I can hold. I was shooting the .280 Springfield yesterday with reloads of 139 grain Hornady bullets and IMR4350 powder and shot honest MOA groups. When these barrels go on sale again I plan to get a few more. All the best...
Gil
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Flint54 Member
Joined: Apr 09, 2005 Posts: 389 Location: North Carolina
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skb2706 Member
Joined: Apr 10, 2006 Posts: 269
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Posted: Mon May 01, 2006 10:35 am Post subject: Re: Midway barrels |
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Just started working with my first AB barrel. Savage 22-250 AI varmint contour that cost me the grand total of $82 less shipping. I put the rifle together and loaded up fireform rounds first. These proved very accurate and gave me a couple hundred cases to develop loading data for. Right now I have a load that uses 52 gr. Amaxs and H-380 that clocks along at 4000 fps and is like a bolt of lightning on prairie dogs. I should have bought a couple of the same barrel..................
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Crackshot Super Member
Joined: Oct 23, 2005 Posts: 1693 Location: Mich
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Posted: Mon May 01, 2006 2:09 pm Post subject: Re: Midway barrels |
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It is my understanding that ER Shaw makes the barrels for A&B, they are fine barrels, I also have a 03 Springfeild I rebarreled with an A&B barrel in 243 winchester and it shoots fine. I got an unturned barrel blank and made an egg rifle.
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Vince Site Admin
Joined: May 25, 2005 Posts: 15719 Location: Brisbane AUSTRALIA
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Crackshot Super Member
Joined: Oct 23, 2005 Posts: 1693 Location: Mich
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Posted: Tue May 02, 2006 7:34 am Post subject: Re: Midway barrels |
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Oop's! Sorry Vince, at our local club we have a competition called "Egg shoot", centerfire shoots 200yds, rimfire shoots 100yds, several of us have rifles we have built or had built for this competition.
Its actually hard to hit them darn things Its amazing what affect the wind and your own stupid mistakes can affect bullet flight.
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Vince Site Admin
Joined: May 25, 2005 Posts: 15719 Location: Brisbane AUSTRALIA
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Posted: Tue May 02, 2006 7:11 pm Post subject: Re: Midway barrels |
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Crackshot wrote: |
Oop's! Sorry Vince, at our local club we have a competition called "Egg shoot", centerfire shoots 200yds, rimfire shoots 100yds, several of us have rifles we have built or had built for this competition.
Its actually hard to hit them darn things Its amazing what affect the wind and your own stupid mistakes can affect bullet flight. |
Wow mate, that sounds like a real fun shoot. No arguments about hitting the egg either. It would be a bit like hitting the "shoot off" targets we used in pistol sillouette......half size feeding chickens at 200m.
Another fun shoot we had was a fly shoot at 50m, pictures of blowflies on an A4 sheet of paper. .22 rimfires either sitting or standing. Very frustrating but fun.
Cheers, Vince
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Crackshot Super Member
Joined: Oct 23, 2005 Posts: 1693 Location: Mich
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Posted: Wed May 03, 2006 9:12 am Post subject: Re: Midway barrels |
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The egg shoot is fun as well, some of the newer fellows take it alittle to serieus though, that gets frustrating.
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Vince Site Admin
Joined: May 25, 2005 Posts: 15719 Location: Brisbane AUSTRALIA
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Dimitri Super Member
Joined: Nov 25, 2005 Posts: 5946
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Posted: Wed May 03, 2006 7:17 pm Post subject: Re: Midway barrels |
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Threads like this make me sad we dont have Midway here and the US Midway wont ship ANYTHING to Canada
Dimitri
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skb2706 Member
Joined: Apr 10, 2006 Posts: 269
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Posted: Thu May 04, 2006 11:15 am Post subject: Re: Midway barrels |
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Never did an organized egg shoot.........but we take short pieces of string and super glue them to the end of eggs. Then suspend the eggs from a fence wire using the string...........extremely difficult target as there are no references for missed shots.
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Crackshot Super Member
Joined: Oct 23, 2005 Posts: 1693 Location: Mich
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Posted: Thu May 04, 2006 12:25 pm Post subject: Re: Midway barrels |
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We use 2 screws and rubber bands, the eggs are against a black back ground so no reference for missed shots.
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