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Posted: 4/1/2011 6:30:23 PM EDT
| Just wondering, if I were wanting to buy a Tantal that keyholed on 7N6 but was fine on commercial 60grn, how much would be fair to ask? |
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The last Tantal kit I bought was just under $300, but I think they are going for more now. Add in a receiver and rivets and some US parts and you're looking at $400 at least.
If you don't care about the barrel and shooting surplus, $300 - $400. If you do care, you are going to have to buy a barrel and swap everything over, so call it $250-350? Always depends on how badly you want it, and how many accessories come with it too. If it comes with 20 magazines for $400 then I'd probably buy it. 
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| You know this keyholing Tantal question is gonna haunt us for a LONG time...for that matter what is a "non-keyholing" Tantal worth? IF...it could start keyholing at any moment, as some folks have claimed. This whole thing doesn't make any sense to me, for various reasons, so i have been researching the question for quite some time now. I have found Tantals that will "swallow" a bullet all the way into the muzzle, but won't keyhole. I have seen examples of all three rifling twists that keyhole and don't keyhole. I have seen tight bore examples of all twist rates that do and don't keyhole. My own Tantal with a 1/9 twist and a somewhat loose bore will not kehole with anything, and I have tried every available load except the silver bear 60, and everything works just fine, even when I get it really smokin hot! There is no constant culprit here, and I even wondered if the muzzle break might have something to do with it, or the chamber specs, ammo or ??? I TRIED like hell to make mine keyhole, but it won't at any range. Finnish gun technologist Robie Kulokivi studied the origonal Russian issue AK-74's and noted specifically that they had "really loose bores" would almost swallow a bullet all the way through,even though they were chrome lined, but he didn't mention if they keyholed or not! Technically the .223/5.56 bbl SHOULD work, but for some reason they didn't seem to work too well...even if the 5.45 is technically a .222...but the Russian/Bulgarian/ ammo itself varies ALOT. All this has made me extremely skeptical about any Tantal, and I wish I could play around with a few more to see what i could learn. It is a mystery, meanwhile mine just keeps on shooting on and on... |
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Mine keeps shooting too, not keyholing, even though the serial number is right in the serial number range of all the keyholing ones that have been posted about in the past.
But since nobody I know is going to use a Tantal for 100 yard precision shooting, and it's still minute of man at 25-50 yards even if it IS keyholing (Which I know from a custom AR upper in 5.45 that I had built) they can still be used somewhat effectively and for fun, |
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