Whose barrel is better?

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I am about to order another barreled action, which company of these two has the better barrel?

PVA or Straight Jacket?

I currently have 2 PVA barreled actions and both are lasers but have not tried SJA. They offer similar options.

 

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In my opinion it would depend on which has exactly what you want as both produce a product that will outshoot me in my personal experience.

 

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Why deviate from PVA? I guess I am getting old and care less for surprises and experiments and stick the proven. Use my time & money to shoot.

LITFA!

 

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Ronin22 said:

Why deviate from PVA? I guess I am getting old and care less for surprises and experiments and stick the proven. Use my time & money to shoot.

LITFA!

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Mostly just curiosity.

 

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wvfarrier said:

Mostly just curiosity.

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I get it. I was in that stage for many years. Now I just want boring reliable and what I find gets me that I stick with.
As said already, both will probably offer an acceptable rig for you.

 

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So both will chamber a great barrel, have you picked a barrel manufacturer? PVA will chamber your blank or their own brand. Straight Jacket will chamber any blank you send them. I have not tried a barrel from PVA but everything I hear is great. I have one barrel from Straight Jacket and it is a hammer (CRB blank).

 

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wvfarrier said:

Mostly just curiosity.

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If you’re curious/ bored and want the absolute best gunsmith:

Alex Wheeler
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I've had several pva barrels and they've all shot great, osprey blanks and rock creek. Never had a straight jacket barrel, but seems there was a thread a yr or so ago where their threads wrecked a cdg action.

 

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6brshooter said:

I've had several pva barrels and they've all shot great, osprey blanks and rock creek. Never had a straight jacket barrel, but seems there was a thread a yr or so ago where their threads wrecked a cdg action.

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Yeah, I remember that. Well, it was their threads and perhaps a bit of a ham handed owner twisting the shit out of threads that didn't mate properly. And...er, not sure if he used any sort of anti-seize on it.