Author Topic: shooting clays until the barrel gets hot (Read 733 times)

mjbgalt · « **on:** October 02, 2005, 03:06:11 PM »

i shot my browning gold today and we let our guns get pretty hot. any way we could hurt anything? we had 'em hot enough that it hurt to touch the barrel for very long. it didnt change the point where the shot went and it didnt seem to hurt anything but i am curious because i plan to be shooting a lot of sporting clays and such soon and i want to make sure i am not damaging this $300 barrel.

-Matt

mjbgalt · « **Reply #1 on:** October 03, 2005, 01:25:01 PM »

did i ask a question no one knows the answer to?

-Matt

Sx2 · « **Reply #2 on:** October 03, 2005, 02:37:07 PM »

If it were my gun, I wouldn't worry about it. The mfg's do worse to them, typically. I'm thinking no one wants the liability of being wrong with so many different external factors. One oops & I told ya so.

I'd shoot the sporting clays untill your shoulder hurt.

Some guns me, my brother and dad have run a 5 gallon bucket of reloads through shooting trap.
870 Wingmaster
Browning A-5
Mossberg 930
Browning Gold
I have run a case through my Sx2, which is about 1/2 a 5 gallon bucket.

mjbgalt · « **Reply #3 on:** October 03, 2005, 03:58:28 PM »

not that its dangerous, just that i may warp it or maybe melt something or damage choke tubes?

i know its a cardinal sin to shoot a rifle til its hot but maybe a shotgun tube being just that- a tube- not much you can do to it?

-Matt

lefty o · « **Reply #4 on:** October 03, 2005, 05:40:40 PM »

getting it hot will not harm it. if you can make it glow, then you might have a problem.

dave375hh · « **Reply #5 on:** October 04, 2005, 04:40:35 AM »

If you want to see hot, shoot 50 pairs of trap doubles in July. Remember to wear a glove. That makes a shotgun as hot as I've ever seen one, and I've never seen or heard of one being damaged in any way.

You may wish to reconsider your comment about melting the barrel or chokes?

? The shells would melt and/or detonate(cook-off) at a 1000 deg. or more, less than the steels melting point. You'll quit before the gun is harmed from heat.

Nixter · « **Reply #6 on:** October 04, 2005, 06:35:14 AM »

Hmmm, I once shot my Benelli to the point of disfiguring the bead from heat.

We were shooting flurries. Three trappers, one on each side and one behind and to one side. Shot a box and a half of shells as fast as I could load'em. (no speed-loader)

I don't think there was any damage done to the barrel or the choke tube. The gun still kills geese and clays. Well when I do my part it does.

Nixter

Graybeard · « **Reply #7 on:** October 04, 2005, 05:22:11 PM »

Don't think you can shoot it fast enough or long enough to hurt it. Have fun and don't worry about the barrel.