arcticap
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I’ve used Bobby for a shocking number of barrel projects and I won’t enumerate them here for fear that Mrs Woodnbow gets ahold of this iPad... every single time he has hit the mark. Sometimes the barrel hasn’t worked out the way I envisioned but that was because my expectations weren’t in line with the physics of lead moving rapidly down a steel tube. No fault of Mr. Hoyt.
Plus he bears the surname of the greatest recurve bowyer of my generation, Mr. Earl Hoyt Junior. RIP...
I don't recall ever reading a bad report about a Hoyt barrel. But if a person ends up choosing round bottom rifling, it won't be the same as conventional rifling.
It looks great and may shoot patched round balls great, but I don't know how that rifling performs with conicals compared to a factory barrel.
And I've never seen what the rifling of the barrel liners look like or heard much about how well they perform.
The liner options may be so slim that you get what you get since he may only be installing it.
It would be a gamble to think that a barrel liner will perform as well as a factory barrel, maybe it will and maybe it won't.
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