Michael J. McCasland
New member
I have started a project to build a varmint rifle out of a Ruger No. 3. I like the ruger single shots a lot and have found my No. 1 22-250 to be effective for my type of calling. However the 22-250 is rough on Arizona sized fox and bobcats. The rifle that I'm building is going to be a 223 rem. In the search for a barrel I've cruised the various web sites, douglas, shilen, Pac-nor, lija ...... etc. All had LONG turn arounds for barrels, 6-8 weeks. Eventually I ventured onto the Midway website and found that they carry more barrels than they advertise in the catalog and at a signifigantly reduced price from that charged from the manufacturers themselves (not really a suprise) and they have them in stock. I settled on a Shilen chrome moly (I need to blue the action anyway so stainless offered little in the way of cost savings) No.5 light varmint contour that will finish to 26 inches. The barrel is alittle bigger than I wanted, However it was in stock and is not that much heavier than the one I was looking at.
Question - Have you got any experience with the Shilen barrel - good - bad - its another tube with rifling, anything. Have you any experience with this contour?
Michael
Question - Have you got any experience with the Shilen barrel - good - bad - its another tube with rifling, anything. Have you any experience with this contour?
Michael