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So we are having a discussion at work and I need an answer.

How long is the typical barrel life of 300 RUM

I am saying over 1000 shots

The guy here is saying less than 250....

Depends upon how you drive it and what you are driving through it and what your needs are.

Most will never knock the new outta one...............

Ok, he has a 700 sendero that he claims lost accuracy out of after a few boxes, has a different scope and mounts on it but still can't get it to shoot 180 partitions at like 3000, pretty tame load I think, Never shot a Ultra before.

quite tame...might be part of the prob

Accuracy puking,can be induced by a host of variables after a few boxes,none of which is the barrel being shot out.

Sendero's jump around horribly in their stocks(pull it apart and look at the skid marks on the receiver's underside),the Ultra bumps enough to tax scope/base/rings and the shooter. NPT's are soft and will foul wonderously.

The rifle never had a chance to shine...which is of course very typical.............

So it would be wise to offer him 50 bucks for it and build it up again? JK. I will let him know I tried to him to shoot some 208 amaxes loaded hot in it. I will see if I can get him to change the stocks or have it bedded.

More likely the rifle wore him out in less than 250 rounds....grin

If you've a desire for a 300 Ultra tube that hasn't had the new knocked offa it,you would be in tall cotton...................

I am not I just called the dealer about an accumark 300 wby for 500 his wife is having him call me back....

He is going to send it out and have a custom made out of it, he is afraid of the 300 I think so whats he ask the guy about, a 338-378 HAHA... More money then brains....

Oh yeah this is the same guy who last week had 340 wby barrel on his encore thought it kicked to much so he took it to the drill press and tried to port it.

The loose nut behind the trigger,is 99% of all "issues".................

Wow....Now that is impressive.

For what its worth, I'm into my 300RUM for over 1400 rounds now, and it is still reliably punching sub MOA......Although, I haven't leaned on it really hard.

My Sako 300 Rum has been shot 750 times or so. The accuracy has went from a true .5 rifle to about 1 inch maybe a little more. The throat has grown .070 inch. I shoot it full throttle all the time. It averages 3347 fps with 180 grain partition with this lot of RL25.

Dink

Interesting.

Mine will still fling 168gr TSX's (moly'd) into 0.3's-0.5's (if I'm on my game and haven't had too much coffee) at around 3450 and change....using R22.

It doesn't do as well with the 130's, but it does do reasonably well with the 168SMK, the 168 amax (just started with that bullet now), and the 180TSX (again, shoots 'em into knots....) I'm hoping to get 2400 or so rounds out of it, before it needs a new tube.

Mind you, I haven't looked down the pipe for a while, so maybe its closer to pooched than I think.

Of course, its gonna be a while before I get there with that one now, since I've started playing with the 162 amax in my 7wsm....

That's funny.

The dots connect.

Sounds like he would be better served with a 308 or 30-06. I shot 300 Weatherby for a number of years in the 1970's for some reason I thought I needed more that what I was getting out of a 7mm Remington Mag at the time. Seems to me that the 300 Weatherby was just about the upper limit of what I wanted to shoot at that time. It seems to me that cartridges like the 300 RUM the the like are getting to be to much of a good thing. I played with a 330 dakota for a time, I ended up going back to the 338 Winnie I shot, these days I shoot a 7mm Remington Mag again because that was the barrel on the Blaser I bought. So I came back to what I had after chasing the dragon for 38 years. Barrel life is subjective, At what point will it not be accurate enough to kill an elk, more that I would want to shoot one. You might be looking at 2500 to 3000 shots, maybe a tad less. More barrels are worn out from improper cleaning than from shooting. I never saw the reason for the RUM's, some of the Dakota Cartridges made some sense, but at 2 bucks a case, cases last a very long time, I know from the 330 I had. It don't really make a whole lot of sense, other than you just want one. I know a fellow that shoots a 30-378 for his deer hunting near were I live, every time he shoot it this time of year I hear it, its loud very loud. Seems to me a little much for 100 lb white tails and 40 yard shots. He likes it. Next year, I am going 250-3000, or a 30-30.

My buds 700 LSS (sporter weight) lasted for 1500. He practiced all the time out to 1k+. He was not gentle with it.

The 700 BDL I bought a few years ago as a donar has over 2000 through it and it still shoots great. After doing the stupid "shooting the donar"I was planning on shooting this barrel out and rebarreling it to a RUM again but it's lasted long enough for me to loose intrest in the rifle and move on to another project.

My 300 ultra puked a Mike Rock tube at about 1250 rounds.
I am of the opinion that they make barrels everyday and I run them hard.

Well - I read your post and the only good thing about the post was that the Ultra Mag only came on high end rifles.
The minus side is that Remingtons fit and finish has gone down the crapper the last couple of years.
The only sad part of it all is that most people do not understand the value of good optic's, so without a through inspection - there is no way for sure to know what the problem is.
There is no way to diagnose his problem over the internet.
I would say that there is either a issue with the scope or the action fit and the stock.
I only hunt whitetail deer - so there is no reason for me to want something that powerful. But a friend of mine has one and we have done some experiments and have found that it is a fairly accurate rifle, just that it has so much recoil that it probably has the guy scared out of his pants to shoot it and he is probably flinching.
The best thing he could do is get rid of it and buy something a little less powerful such as a 300 Winchester Magnum.
The 300 RUM is not for everyone.