hummer barrels

sbindy said:
It's in a book called The Benchrest Shooting Primer if you can find a copy
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I may have found the article you referenced; if so, it's on page 210 (strangely enough, I had a book marker at that page). Based on that article, it must be my barrels causing my shotgun-pattern groups, not my sorry memory. :unsure:
 
I think a lot of people who have Hummer barrels don't realize they have one until it quits shooting, the magic doesn't last forever. Quiet often folks shoot them out because they shoot so well they just love shooting them, offer others a few shots and so on. They are few and far between.

There is a spectrum of barrel shooting quality, from my experience and far too many teasers we keep trying to make shoot.
 
Iv heard hummer bbls have wider windows of tune. So if you took this idea and applied it to a new barrel , say 6ppc. You might could find out what you have in say the first 200 rounds.
I know things change in the first several hundred rds, but say you find a seating depth window of . 50 thousandths? Or a powder charge node of a whole grain, That's wildly huge, but not impossible.
 
I’ve had 2 hummers and they shot lights out !!! Both shot great from the first rounds, and I was never chasing tune with them. When they were done they QUIT shooting and were simply awful…. Always wondering when the next hummer will come my way
 
There are folks around who can and do slug and lap barrels to make them shoot like hummers. So the question comes, has anyone ever slugged a Hummer and if so, how did it compare to the usual barrel?
 
I have had many very good barrels and a few exceptional ones. I believe that I did have one that was the proverbial 'hummer'. In 1997 I was at Phoenix for the WBC and I was introduced to Flash Ebert. He sold me one of his Turbo barrels which finished up on my LV. That barrel was just amazing - I was fortunate enough to win nine major matches and set two new Australian records with it. Many a time I would fire and think Oh NO! and damned if the shot didn't go in. Unfortunately this barrel died at around 1200 rounds, but what a ride!
 
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