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.
 
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).
 
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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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.
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.
 
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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.
Yep, there was some contributing factors also, that I forgot. I do remember Ted at ARC went above and beyond to make owner whole, ill remember that when I action shop!
 
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If you’re curious/ bored and want the absolute best gunsmith:

Alex Wheeler
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I have been really wanting to try a K&P. Spoke to LRI recently about doing one because they partner with K&P but they don’t do pre-fits. Not even for the super common stuff like 737’s. They also cost more than a PVA pre-fit. I can send one of my 737s to them for the first barrel but I don’t feel like parting with one right now. I have heard nothing but good things though.
 
I have been really wanting to try a K&P. Spoke to LRI recently about doing one because they partner with K&P but they don’t do pre-fits. Not even for the super common stuff like 737’s. They also cost more than a PVA pre-fit. I can send one of my 737s to them for the first barrel but I don’t feel like parting with one right now. I have heard nothing but good things though.

They told me they would cut my impact without it in hand. Might want to double check, this was just a few months ago
 
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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.
I'm happy to help out, PVA pioneered the idea of the shouldered prefit in this industry and we've been doing Impacts since 2016 or 17, it's been such a long time that I don't recall. The shouldered prefit IS our wheelhouse. Lately SJA has been buying Ospreys so it's possible you're going to get the same blank either way you go, they have shown to cut a good barrel. Anything outside of that on customer service concerns that others mentioned isn't something I can speak with any authority but their owner is on this forum and stops in to touch base with customers.

It would probably surprise more than a few folks on here to know just how many prefits that come out of PVA for other companies...

If you're still looking for a place, we can handle it without issue and we have the blanks here. One stop shop.
 
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