Beggs Rimfire Program, latest,,

[Gene Beggs]

Just finished a new Turbo/Beggs rimfire. The little rifle is sweet and shoots great! It features the aluminum Ultralite stock, Jewell trigger, Shilen ratchet barrel and Beggs tuner.

Having tried both the coned breech and extractor groove type, I have decided the remainder of my rifles will feature the later. I find them easier to feed and less prone to damage from accidental dry firing.

Don't miss this one. See add in classified.

Gene Beggs

 

[gambler]

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[Don Stith]

Why no price in ad?
Doesn't the extractor slot negate the Myers installed barrel indexing bushing ?
Don

 

[Gene Beggs]

Why no price in ad?
Doesn't the extractor slot negate the Myers installed barrel indexing bushing ?
Don

Don, I feel price should be discussed only between the seller and buyer. If you are interested, give me a call at 432-631-5124 or e-mail at genebeggs@cableone.net

The indexing bushing isn't meant to be adjusted in the field; all tuning is done with the tuner.

Before cutting the extractor slots, I range test the barrel to see if it shoots better in one position or another. In the case of this barrel, it made no difference at all.

A perfectly straight barrel shoots just as well in any position.

Gene Beggs

 

[Keith23]

Gene

After all your testing, have you now came to the same conclusion Calfee did some years ago, when he said indexing did not improve results in a good barrel?

There has been much discussion on this subject.

What I hear you saying is, we are better off picking good straight barrels than trying to find an index spots on ones that have a bow in them.

If I am drawing wrong conclusions please correct me.

 

[Fred K]

It seems to me if the barrel is straight and you put on a tuner it causes the barrel to droop, no longer straight. Maybe with the correct selected index the tuner will cause it to be straight ! Comments ?
Fred K

 

[Gene Beggs]

After all your testing, have you now came to the same conclusion Calfee did some years ago, when he said indexing did not improve results in a good barrel?

There has been much discussion on this subject.

What I hear you saying is, we are better off picking good straight barrels than trying to find an index spots on ones that have a bow in them.

If I am drawing wrong conclusions please correct me.

Calfee is correct; indexing does not improve results with a perfectly straight barrel. The key word here is 'perfectly straight.'

How many barrels are perfectly straight? Not many. But the barrel makers of today are turning out better barrels than ever before. Those barrels that have a bit of curve in them will definitely benefit from being indexed and will generally shoot just as well as a straight one if the curvature is indexed in the vertical plane.

You said,

"What I hear you saying is, we are better off picking good straight barrels than trying to find an index spot on ones that have a bow in them."

Yes, that's correct, but how many barrel makers will let you go through a batch of barrels and choose only the ones that appear to be perfectly straight?

Later,

Gene Beggs