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aeropb

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Bbl twist rate determines what weight ammo your weapon will stabilize correctly.

Best way in my eyes to describe it is like throwing a football. Not enough spin and you'll throw a crappy, wobbly, inaccurate loose spiral. Enough spin and you'll throw an accurate tight spiral.

Basically the longer(and generally heavier) the bullet, the faster the twist must be to stabilize the bullet.

If the twist is too slow, the bullet will come out like a wobbly thrown football, which will hurt accuracy.

With the correct twist bullets will come out like an accurate tight spiral.
 

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If you reload you can cheat on the twist by seating the bullet further out than nom to hit the rilfeing and going to near max powder charge. this is what I did with my REM XP-100 221 fireball to shoot 62gr bullets with 15gr imr4227. The XP has a 1 in 12 twist and most loading books call for 1 in 10 or faster for bullets over 60gr.
 

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If you're going to shoot primarily 55-62 grain bullets, and mostly 55 for economy, I'd get a 1 in 9. The barrel will last longer. If you want to set up a tack driver with the heavies, get a 1 in 7.
 

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