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Which barrel?

14.5" M4

16" M4

20" LW




(16)  16.7%

(41)  42.7%

(39)  40.6%
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notarpole
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Posted: 9/3/2011 11:20:30 PM

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I am putting together a 3 gun upper from components I have laying around and could use some barrel opinions... I have a 14.5 m4, 16" m4, and a 20" Govt profile(very light) barrels to choose from and will be using a burris Tac30 optic. If you had these three barrels sitting in front of you, which one?


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Posted: 9/4/2011 10:41:29 AM
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I would sell all of them and get a Lothar Walther or Noveske barrel. (Or WOA/Nordic/Loki and any of the other half dozen manufacturers who make a rifle/midlength gas system 1:8 precision barrel)

If I had to pick one, the 20" would be it since it would have the lowest recoil impulse and allow the fastest (and possibly the most accurate) shooting.
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Posted: 9/4/2011 3:25:33 PM
16 inch better ballistics than 14.5, not so long cumbersome as a 20. 75% of the shooting in a average 3gun match is under 100 yards even for rifle. FT Benning 3gun for example: only had 2 long range stages at out the 10 stages every year.

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Posted: 9/4/2011 3:41:57 PM
Of those? Probably the 20.

I have an 18" and a 20" on the rifles I use for 3-gun.
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Posted: 9/6/2011 2:58:46 PM
What do most of the winners shoot? 20 in barrels.
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Posted: 9/6/2011 8:16:17 PM

Originally Posted By DyNo541:
I would sell all of them and get a Lothar Walther or Noveske barrel. (Or WOA/Nordic/Loki and any of the other half dozen manufacturers who make a rifle/midlength gas system 1:8 precision barrel)

If I had to pick one, the 20" would be it since it would have the lowest recoil impulse and allow the fastest (and possibly the most accurate) shooting.


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Posted: 9/8/2011 7:19:46 AM
20"