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Its a Pro Hunter Stainless frame, the thumb hole stock is the light weight part.

Im tryin to decide between eabco barrel or mgm..any opinions on whats better?..lookin at standard sized barrel in 24 inches and 1:8 or 9 twist to shoot 95 or 100 grain. Bullets

i have an MGM 26" heavy in 280 ackley that shoots like nobody's business!

I have MGM barrel in 22-250 that is unbelievable.

im thinkin from the sounds of it the MGM barrel is the way to go...i guess my next question is, 1-8 or 1-9 twist to shoot 95 grain NBT's

i think im gonna go w/ 1-8 twist so i can go w/ a heavier bullet and make sure itll stabilize them since i plan on doin some longer range fun

Every MGM barrel I've had was an excellent shooter. Have had several Bullberry barrels too that were nothing to sneeze at either.

the mgm seems to be the most promising...but im still on the fence of if its worth the extra money over the tc or bergara barrel...i know the tc barrel only comes in 1-10 twist, but that should be plenty to shoot an 80-90 grain bullet

I have a prohunter barrel in 30-06 and it is a hammer cant comment on 243

im lookin at just the regular 24 inch tc barrel..want to keep the rifle a lil more compact as it will be used as my "truck and walking rifle" so i want to keep the weight down a lil and have it be manueverable

2 1/2 years ago, I was in your shoes and I went with a bergara barrel in 243 with 1-10 twist. I've been very happy with my decision. With my hand loads it's quite accurate, I haven't shot any factory loads with it. My experience is limited to 1 bergara barrel and 1 T/C barrel (.50 muz.) though, but I will buy another bergara.

Lee

Thats the kinda response i was lookin for lee!..what kinda loads/bullet combo worked well for u out of that rifle? I plan to handload for it anyways..prolly wont ever see a factory round in it

I use 72 gr Barnes VLC with 42 grs of IMR 4064 for woodchuck and such. This load is hot(3650fps on my crony) so work up. Barnes discontinued the VLC but the local gun shop had quite a few marked down, when I saw how well they shot out of this barrel I went back and bought all they had. As far as accuracy, I beleive the gun will shoot better than I can with this load. 1/2 " groups are common with the occasional 3 shots 1 hole groups from the bench.
I live in a shot gun zone so I use a muzzle loader to deer hunt with most of the time and when I hunt in rifle territory I usually grab a different rifle, but I did pressure test 100gr grand slams and 100gr hornady BTSP bullets with 3 different powders each. IIRC all tests were right around MOA and I was confident I could get sub MOA with either bullet with a little load work up. Sorry I can't help more with the heavier bullets but once I fire formed enough brass with my pressure tests I concentrated on a varmint round.

Lee

the bullet you are using isnt too much lighter than what im lookin at using..im looking at either the 85 grain tsx or 85 grain sierra bthp..maybe 80 grain ttsx also..something in that area..should be plent of ass behind it to take out whitetial and predators in southern ms..and if it seems like a i need a lil more rifle i got my 300 wm thatll quickly put them down..im just lookin at a pretty much middle ground caliber to have some fun w/ and use it on deer and smaller game

Hardly weird...........It' all in what you like.

Oh! 243 with a 60gr Sierra hollow point makes a super prairie dog round too

that def would be a sweet pdog round, but im lookin at more of a utility type round for varmints and deer..so somethin in the 80-90 grain bullet is what im lookin at...good suggestion tho!

only thing im strugglin w/ deciding right now is if i should get the pro hunter thumbhole vs reg prohunter stock..any opinions on what works better? its gonna have a 24 inch bergara 1-10 barrel in 243 win..gonna try out some 85 grain tsx's and 90 grain nbt, and prolly the sierra bthp 85 just because of the price on them..either a 4-12x40 vortex viper or 3.5-10x50 viper is what im gonna use for glass...any other suggestions or ideas?thanks fellas

Try a QUICK centerfire reload with the thumbhole stock and the regular stock and decide which suits you.

Doc

im sure it would be considerably faster w/o the thumbhole stock just because you gotta take your hand out the thumbhole and get it resituated to cock the hammer,etc...good point to look at doc..didnt really look at it that way..im thinkin the reg PH stock would be the way to go since i plan to do some predator hunting w/ it..and as much as i want to believe im a perfect shot ive seen numerous times that isnt the case on moving targets haha