All other things being equal (quality barrel, quality Smith, etc)
For a .308 or .223 trainer barrel, any reason not to go with the cheaper button rifling?
For a .308 or .223 trainer barrel, any reason not to go with the cheaper button rifling?
Keystone Accuracy is doing button barrels for $379 installed. If I needed an accurate but inexpensive practice barrel I would go that route.
Damn.... $379 for a shouldered barrel chambered and threaded barrel to fit my TL3? That's seriously tempting.
Damn.... $379 for a shouldered barrel chambered and threaded barrel to fit my TL3? That's seriously tempting.
Dan Lilja knows how to make a barrel. Scary good stuff.WHOSE button barrel is the better question.
Dan Lilja knows things. Ed Shilen knows things. Schneider knows things. There are others, of course.
But some don't know as much. We need a little more info.
-Nate
WHOSE button barrel is the better question.
Dan Lilja knows things. Ed Shilen knows things. Schneider knows things. There are others, of course.
But some don't know as much. We need a little more info.
-Nate
I read what you typed.That’s why I said “all things being equal, quality barrel.”
Yep. He's done a few barrels for me, they've all been shooters. His lead time is real short too. It wouldn t surprise me if it was less than 2 weeks.
Do you know what kind of blank he uses for the button rifle barrels? It doesn’t say on the website.
Scandale's house barrels are indeed GM blanks. Even in AR, 3/4 Minute barrels or better, but it is advisable to have a replacement on hand earlier than with a premium cut tube.
On the rifling technology, I have vacillated over they years on my thoughts. ... Really, I think all this might be mostly marketing speak that, though based in good engineering logic, just doesn't have much of a magnitude to it's real world effects.