Hey shooters,
i was wondering about ways to keep your barrel cool while at the range. I know hunters don't have this problem but I'm going to be target shooting and I'm worried about losing accuracy and worse damaging my barrel do to over heating it. I have a heavy barrel and its chambered in a fairly light load (223) but when I was breaking it in I noticed the barrel getting pretty hot so I would wait around and let it cool before firing it again. My two questions are:
1:how hot is to hot?
2:what can I do to make the cooling process faster. I have read you can point the barrel up and that helps also keeping out of the sun in the shade. I have read that people use wet towels to speed up the process and I even saw a guy on YouTube running water down his barrel to cool it??

I also want to say a quick thank you to all the people on this forum for all the info and support.