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Usually coming from the wife, those three words scare the crap out of me, however I have been toying with the idea of having my second Optima pistol bored and relined with a .45 cal barrel liner. IF I can find someone to take on the chore.
I hunt with an Optima .50 and love it. I have a second Optima still in the box, so to speak: its new and unfired but scoped. I think the Optima pistol format is prime for some playing and I would really like a .45, but possibly in a different twist rate than the 1:28" that is factory standard on the .50 cal pistols. I'd like to keep the same barrel length.
I'm not certain how much of an issue getting .40 cal bullets to stabilize in a 14" barrel would be, but the option of shooting bullet to bore at ,45 would almost certainly eliminate any problems the narrower bullet might throw into this equation, but the more I think of this the more I think I'd like to add this to the rabbit hole.
Any ideas?
I hunt with an Optima .50 and love it. I have a second Optima still in the box, so to speak: its new and unfired but scoped. I think the Optima pistol format is prime for some playing and I would really like a .45, but possibly in a different twist rate than the 1:28" that is factory standard on the .50 cal pistols. I'd like to keep the same barrel length.
I'm not certain how much of an issue getting .40 cal bullets to stabilize in a 14" barrel would be, but the option of shooting bullet to bore at ,45 would almost certainly eliminate any problems the narrower bullet might throw into this equation, but the more I think of this the more I think I'd like to add this to the rabbit hole.
Any ideas?