3 groove barrels in shortrange BR ???

Too funny, that guy is something else .. Have you ever seen his loading table ? LOL..WOW !!
 
Charles,
One of the reasons that I use Mozilla Firefox for a browser is the built in spell check, although I have caught myself writing a post, and feeling good about the lack of red squiggles under misspelled words only to look up and see that I was working in Internet Explorer, at which point I generally have cut and pasted the finished post into MS Word for a quick spell check and fix.
Boyd
 
Ohh Special Checks ain't the answer neither! It ketches misspelled weirds whale but dozen do much for misuse nor for grammar

There, their they're....... HERE! HERE!

"works" in principal, capitol!

no squiggles

al
 
The real killer for me is missing punctuation. It's nice to know what is (suppose to be) a sentence, or if you write run-on sentences like me, a clause.

I also find I have to change my notion of paragraphing for the internet. Something alinwa seems to know or do instinctively.

BTW, did we finish off the three-groove barrel question? To the OP: They'll do just fine. Maybe you'll have to load to the middle or upper window. Most everyone does anyway.
 
The real killer for me is missing punctuation. It's nice to know what is (suppose to be) a sentence, or if you write run-on sentences like me, a clause.

I also find I have to change my notion of paragraphing for the internet. Something alinwa seems to know or do instinctively.

BTW, did we finish off the three-groove barrel question? To the OP: They'll do just fine. Maybe you'll have to load to the middle or upper window. Most everyone does anyway.

And for me it's the misused or misapplied quote or sense that jumps out......

f'rinstance, " It's nice to know what is (suppose to be) a sentence" from above,

sounds OK orally, spoken redneck.... but what it MEANS is, "what is supposed to be."

Just that liddle 'd' changes the sense entirely :)

I'll stop now.

I hope that all here understand that at least to me, this exchange is between myself and Charles......

I AM NOT the grammar police

al


And BTW Charles, runon sentences are a dear part of English Literature. NOT 'bad,' not even to be avoided, they just require a meticulous attention to detail.

(My wife, a paid editor, hates them :) )
 
Since this is just between me & Al:

"Just that liddle 'd' changes the sense entirely"

It does indeed. It was supposed to. I like puns.

BTW, as a typesetter, I use to hate editors. Always changing their minds. They want to change all occurrences of "that" to "which" in the manuscript, then change them all back in first proof. One of the marks of a good typesetter is they have a passion to finish. Anyone who frustrates that is derided.

Then, kicking and screaming, I had to write something for publication. The editor was able, with a lot of hard work, to turn it into something perhaps worth a reader's time.

I just finished writing something else, a chapter for a book. This time, even though the press will have an editor go over it, I paid an editor to go through my manuscript before it goes off to the publisher. (It was a solicited piece; I didn't have to worry about it being accepted.)

That's how much I've changed my mind about editors. So Merry Christmas to your wife, and to you for having sense enough to appreciate her.
 
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I'm going to report a rumor. But the rumoree was R.G. Robinett, so that should be worth something, esp. as ir was the result of testing."


From "Lets see your reloading room/shop set up

Charles E

Post # 32

"One thing I will never understand is why, when trying to communicate, people aren't careful about capitalization, punctuation, and spelling."
I was going to say WOW!! to this post and make some comments but decided to read the entire thread and see it's not needed. I do my best to spell correctly and try to punctuate as correctly as possible but I have been out of school for 32 years and writing hasn't been how I make my living so I hope you take it easy on me Dave!

I bought a 6ppc, Bat action, edge stock, I plan on changing out the barrel with a Lilja 3 groove in 1:8 chambered in 6brx for a 11 lb. 1000 yard rifle. I didn't know if it would work as I never used one and still don't know but this gives me some hope anyway. I will find out next March when we have our first match, I got two of these barrel blanks in a trade so I have to use them somewhere.
Wayne.
 
has anyone shot 3 groove barrels in short range BR.
how did they work out..
my barrel maker sent me a 3 groove barrel instead of a 6groove this is why im asking...
this barrel will be going on a 6ppc..

I will admit that I have never used a 3 groove in short range BR, but have used many in long range application's.
In my opinion they are a disaster with a 1-8" twist (bullet blow-up issues). They might work fine with the slower 1-13.5",1-14"
BR twist's but I wont be the one to try one out.
Send it back and get the 6 groove.
 
I always get curious when I hear shooters talking about these 3 groove barrels. They will tell you how good they are and how their next one will be a 3 groove barrel. Talk to them the following year and they are back using a 4 groove, and you don't dare remind them of what they said last year. I tryed a 3 groove and while it was good I would not buy another. Just an opinion.
 
the best barrel I ever had was a 3 groove Lilja, I've had others that were so-so. Great barrels are were you find them, no magic formula to go by, chamber it and shoot it.
 
It's ancient history now, but I was fortunate enough to win the Benchrest World Championship in New Zealand in 2001 using a 3 groove Maddco barrel. Neville Madden in Australia made a number of these in 14 and 15 inch twist and they were killer barrels. Yes, they seemed to work better with a bit more powder in them, but once tuned they shot extremely well.
 
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