I think some of you are missing the point. Cf barrels aren't better than steel barrels at anything. They allow us to carry lightweight rifles without having little scrawny pencil barrels. It's just aesthetics. Any claim that wrapping a barrel with cf improves it is probably bs. I don't necessarily believe it "stiffens" a barrel. Plenty of very accurate pencil barreled rifles out there, I even have a couple myself. You'd have to be an idiot to believe it aids in cooling. How can you wrap something in an insulator and make it cool faster? You can't.
Having said all of that, if a titanium wrap only accomplishes the same thing, which is just the benefit of an attractive (to some of us) look, then I'm in. Titanium may be a poor conductor, but it is a conductor while cf is absolutely an insulator, so there's an opportunity for improvement there. The other benefit is that you aren't going to chip it. I'm sure we've all seen cf barrels chip. I guess you could potentially gouge or scar up the titanium, but that would take some pretty serious effort. We are all speculating at this point about what it can or can't do, but to simply dismiss it is silly. Until we try it, it's all speculation. I applaud ER Shaw for having the balls to try something new. We should all applaud innovation in this industry. For way too many years there have been almost no marked improvements in shooting gear. Machining tolerances tightened up, ammo got much better, but true innovation is very rare.
