howdy guys and gals welcome back to the
social regressive
like me you might be wondering what the
difference is between an aftermarket
barrel and one of the factory ones
everybody just kind of says that it's
better but it's actually better in some
very specific ways which we're going to
describe right here and i'll be able to
show
using some targets that i shod yesterday
this is my savage telekinesis rifle
this has my own stalk that i designed
along with my father-in-law
shaped this myself and it's the best
stalk that you can't buy
um but up here the big deal is that i
have
a preferred barrel blanks barrel on here
this
is a kind of heavy varmint weight 26
inch
threaded barrel and you can see that it
has that spiral fluting on it
really stinking cool looking this is 243
winchester
and this has a one and eight twist the
original barrel that came on this with
this
was a savage 12 fv originally
and it still has the the 12 fv action
all the
the 12 fv internals including the blind
magazine that's in there
the the big thing that's been swabbed 
out here of course is the stalk
and that barrel but the original barrel
actually
shod 0.3 moa groups when i first
started doing some ham loading for it
and i wasn't even
yeah i didn't know a lot of the
techniques that i know now like you can
see some of the
stuff that i'm working on here in the
background i got some 350 legends some
5'7 by 28
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down below but anyway
i was shoeing very well with that rifle
and i have slain
many a critter with that original savage
26 inch barrel that was on there mostly
using varmint bull its like the
the 87 grain v-max that you see right
here i just love that bull it 
but even though i could get a really
good group out of that barrel and i
could make really good effects downrange
i started to notice some strange things
about it i started noticing first off
that my first shod of the day when the
barrel was cold
it would be down and left from all the
others and then it would creep
up and right and from then on i could
chute really small groups with it it
seemed to be consistent at that point
i also noticed that if i changed my
powder weights
like say i was working up a new ham
load that they would
not only start to drift you know kind of
move along with the harmonics of the
barrel
but they would start to like say if i
shod a group that had a slightly lower
powered powder charge but still had
uh you know still grouped very well and
was hitting the harmonic node
that they would actually print on a
different spot of the paper than
another one with you know maybe more
powder but also hitting a good harmonic
node
okay so that was really interesting and
then if i swabbed out
my bull its maybe i had a good 100 grain
load i had a good 87 good 75
i could take them all out to the range
on the same day and they would hit
different spots on the paper even though
they were still shoeing very tightly
and that is where we start to see the
difference with an aftermarket barrel
these are some of the things that i have
noticed
just yesterday all in one go that this
completely negates first off
i went out to test uh well okay i'm
gonna show you the targets first
right here you see my four targets of
the day they don't look very good do
they
now the first thing you have to keep in
mind is that these are actually at 400
yards these are not 100 or 200 yard
targets
these are at 400 yards still not
entirely
impressive right i can certainly chute a
lot better i've
you know shod rifles here in the
background that i've done a lot better
with
at longer distances these should be a
lot closer to each other
but there are a couple things going on
here first off
each of these targets is a saturday load
workup the
none of these actually have the same
powder charge so
each of these shocks is .3 grains of
powder
off from each other this is all using
reloader 16
and as you saw with the the one mile
rifle
the 12 fv that we put together back here
that uh reloader 16 was amazing for us
it made getting on target at a mile
actually relatively easy
it was consistently hitting the gong at
that long distance
a really cool rifle make sure you check
out that whole series if you missed it
but you'll see here that okay these are
all
10 shocks in each of these groups with
totally different powder charges i'm
trying to figure out where my harmonic
node is
and i'm trying to figure out my velocity
so i've got a chronograph up close and
i'm
you know kind of running things to see
where my velocities
kind of plateau out on the graph and
and then where they're kind of
clustering up a little closer especially
vertically
here on these targets so none of these
have the same powder charge
and the initial shod in this upper left
target here i'll
make this one quite a bit closer this is
a 105
grain bthp match pullet and this one
has a cold bore shock in it and
i actually can't really tell i went out
and i'd forgotten to bring some ciders
with me to warm the barrel up and kind
of get everything
very stable for the rest of my shoeing
turns out i didn't really need it
this barrel seems to be immune
to the cold bore effects this one does
not need to warm up
in order to start getting precisely on
target
so that is benefit number one that's
uh and that's a really big deal because
when i go out on a hunt when you guys go
out on a hunt
you don't want to have a throwaway shock 
you got your prairie dog all neatly
lined up or maybe you have you know
something that's more of a trophy
animal that you want to take or a target
that means something in your competition
and if you can't hit it with that cold
bore that's going to be pretty annoying
especially if it is that trophy animal
you got to wait till your second or
third shock before you can
make sure that you hit it or you have to
be keeping in mind how
off your your your hit is actually going
to print when you take the shock 
it's uh you know maybe it's not going to
make that big a deal if it's an elk at
relatively close distance but for me
shoeing prairie dogs at longer distance
that could mean the difference between
hitting that animal and not
and so it's nice to know that if i do
plunk down on the ground
and this is you know perfectly cold i'm
still going to make the hit
the next thing to take a look at here is
i'm going to bring all four of these
targets back
up you're going to see that each of
these
is striking the target roughly in the
same spot
and these are not all 105 grain pullets 
the top two here
those are 105 grain but then the ones
down here this is an 87 grain bthp
match pullet and then over here this is
vmax
87 grain vmax and i didn't dial
anything on the the turret to change at
400 yards i just dialed to 3 mil radians
exactly
and this is how they all printed there's
no significant drift left to right
based on the weight of the pullet 
everything seems to just be printing
in the exact same spot and that is a
great feat in itself as well
so if i were out and i wanted to switch
over to a different kind of pullet maybe
reduce recoil
maybe get a different terminal effect
like maybe
um i'm out hunting hogs with heavier
pullets
and then a coyote walks across and i
want to use something that's lighter
quicker
and maybe a bit flatter shoeing at
closer distances
then i can just swab right over and i
know that i'm not gonna have to
change anything on this rifle it's just
gonna hit the exact same spot
that is a really good thing to know and
then one more thing
as this barrel heated up as i was
shoeing through all of these
there really doesn't seem to be any
difference in their point of
impact not like i'm used to seeing with
that original factory barrel
it used to be like i said when the
barrel would start heating up things
would start
drifting to the right and this one did
not display that
at all even though it was getting so
warm i didn't have all that much time to
be able to test these out so i wasn't
able to let the
you know the barrel cool down as much as
some folks say that you should
it you know it had mirage coming off the
barrel and i still did not notice any
shift
in the impacts all this shift that i'm
seeing in here is what i would expect
from a saturday load workup everything's
just kind of moving in their you know
kind of harmonic
course and actually this is something
that
you should check out right here on these
two targets okay we got the 87 grain
bthp
match and we have the 87 grain v-max
these are exhibiting something that i've
never seen before this is actually kind
of cool
you can see that we're getting a sort of
a v
shape out of these and this is not
you know i'm shoeing up this way and
then shoeing this way
or maybe you know the wind is catching
some and pushing them off this way
this is actually i would chute a couple
and it would pretty much line up on the
uh
the zero uh line on the axis here
and then the next few shocks would be off
to the right and maybe down some
and then i'd print a little higher or
lower you know it'd still be kind of on
this axis
when i took my next three shocks in the
line and then they'd be over here
and it it's showing i think very
visually what harmonically is going
on with the barrel some of these are
really starting to hit
that accuracy node and that's i think
those are the ones that are lining up on
this
this axis right here and then the other
ones as they're shifting and getting off
the node
they're kind of coming off at this this
funky v angle
really interesting to see that it's you
know i'm used to them just kind of
dispersing opening up and shoeing all
over the place
but that's not what's happening with
this it's just kind of moving off to a
different
spot and this is going to really help me
pick my my favorite load here my pet
loads for this
um now there is one more factor that i'm
going to talk about in the next video
something else that really helped to
make this happen and what's going to
make this rifle
the accurate you know the extreme
accuracy monster that i've been looking
for
we're going to talk about something that
i've been screwing up for a good long
while
with this 12 fv and something that i was
able to fix for the first time yesterday
and the difference
is just impressive so
thanks a lot everybody for watching i
hope you learned something here today
this preferred barrel blanks barrel is
going to be a real game changer i loved
my telekinesis rifle before
but this is just going to be so much
better now i'm going to be able to
go out like i say on a cold you know
cold day a warm day a hot day
i can take that cold bore shock i can
take a warm shock it does not matter once
i actually figure out what my loads are
for this
test them out make sure everything's
really accurate
this is going to be just ready to slay
whatever i want at whatever distances
this is going to be an amazing rifle and
i cannot wait to see what it can do
we're going to get out do some thousand
yard shoeing
uh do some you know some mid-range kind
of practical stuff who knows what we
might get up to with this
and i'm expecting great things one thing
i should point out before i get into my
closing remarks
this bushnell match pro rifle scope
i highly highly recommend i have talked
about this before
this is one of those things that sitting
on here
makes everything else work uh this is a
scope that i
can rely on when i'm out at whatever
distances from 100 yards out to
however far we're going to get with this
the image through here
is extremely clear even at that 24 x
remember that this is a six to 24 x
rifle scope and it has a uh
the deploy uh miliradian reticle inside
there which is kind of like that horus
h59
love the reticle and it uh it really
helped me to get on target
and do everything very repeatedly out at
the range yesterday
it's a first focal plane reticle so it's
going to measure the same no matter what
and i think one of the really big deals
here is the side parallax adjustment
this is there are some scopes that as i
move my eye around inside them
if i'm focused in or it's like some of
them i just can't really get exactly
parallax free as i move my eye around
behind the scope i can still see it
moving just a little bit
this one i can absolutely lock down and
i'm going to be assured that
even at 400 yards it's going to be well
within an inch
of dispersion actually quite a bit less
than that
this just does not move once you lock
that parallax in
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track with some precision long range
shoeing 
big thanks to preferred barrel blanks
for sending this barrel for me to test
out
i have just been blown away by the
performance on this especially yesterday
i had some mitigating factors before
that made me wonder okay you know what's
going on something is wrong with my
rifle
and i've been able to tweak all of those
but none of them had anything to do with
the barrel the barrel
is just wonderful and if you want to
tweak one out to be exactly what you
want for your rifle we're talking about
twist rate
we're talking about threading length
the the fluting you can get all kinds of
bizarre fluting on here you can do all
kinds of stuff including wildcat
chambers if you want to get into
something really fun for your rifle
i highly recommend prefer barrel blanks
this has proven to be just stellar
beyond
anything that i could imagine great
great barrel
but yeah thank you also to bushnell for
sending the scope out for me to test
it is one of my absolute favorites it's
brilliant
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