What do you think the average life of a rifle barrel is?

[Guest FroggyOne2]

LOL.. I hear ya bro

[mikegideon]

Be sure and list them for sale here. One of us will finish burning them out if the price is right;)

I was gonna say earlier in the thread, Froggy's throw-aways are gonna have a lot of life left for most kinds of shooting.

[Caster]

I was gonna say earlier in the thread, Froggy's throw-aways are gonna have a lot of life left for most kinds of shooting.

Yes Froggy's culls will decimate many a Zombie;)

[mikegideon]

Yes Froggy's culls will decimate many a Zombie;)

Even without ammo. Helluva club

[Guest FroggyOne2]

LOl.. being that they are 30 inches long

[1gewehr]

I had a .22-250 that started opening up the groups after only about 2000 rds. I also have a CZ-75B with an actual 24,000 rounds through it that is no where near worn out. And like was posted earlier, I challenge anyone to show me a .22lr barrel that is worn out just by shooting it. All of the 'worn-out' .22 barrel I have seen were either just leaded up, or were worn out through running a cleaning rod through it.

Heat and pressure are what usually kill a barrel. Hotter, more intense cartridges usually wear out a barrel much faster than slower, cooler cartridges. Other factors are the type of rifling and the quality of the bore material. More surface area from deep rifling can cause wear more quickly. And it's pretty well known that a chrome-lined bore usually lasts twice as long as a good-quality steel one. Chrome has less friction than steel, and is also much harder, leading to less wear.

[Jonnin]

Ah thats another story, when talking about match grade performance and so on. Someone who is serious about competition shooting may well consider a barrel worn out when most other folks would consider it to be fine. What little competitive shooting I do, I am still not good enough to ever blame the gun instead of the shooter for the results, and so I am more likely to sell the gun and buy a new one than do a barrel change, and that would just be because I wanted a new gun, not because the old one was a problem.