Sometimes it can be advantageous to modify the barrel on your hunting rifle to optimise certain characteristics. For example, you may have decided to run some very pointy high ballistic coefficient (BC) bullets in your hunting rifle. But the throating of the chamber is too long to see them close to the rifling for accuracy while still staying within magazine length.
Or you may have replaced your factory stock with a lightweight carbon fibre/graphite version only to find that your hunting rifle is now way too muzzle heavy for good handling. The solution can be to modify your barrel. Changes may take the form of alterations to the muzzle end, the breech end or the entire length of the barrel. The following are some of the modifications I have had done to my hunting rifle barrels and the results obtained.
The factory barrel on my Remington .308 had a long throat,
