I saw one of these for the first time at my club just the other day. They were being used at a bench rest match.
wont cold water on a hot barrel warp or give stress cracks.
The weapon had a reputation for great solidity and reliability. Ian V. Hogg, in Weapons & War Machines, describes an action that took place in August 1916, during which the British 100th Company of the Machine Gun Corps fired their ten Vickers guns continuously for twelve hours. Using 100 barrels, they fired a million rounds without a failure. "It was this absolute foolproof reliability which endeared the Vickers to every British soldier who ever fired one."[
No....wont cold water on a hot barrel warp or give stress cracks. I like the air bed pump idea. I have one and there is a small nozzle I could put a tube on and run tube into chamber and blow the air through.
my savage regular barrel with about 6-7 rounds of varmint ammo got too hot to touch yesterday with a outside temp above 90 degrees.Sorry, new guy here to the long range rifle world. What kind of volume are we talking about having to fire in a bolt action .223 to need some apparatus to cool the barrel down?