I ordered this one in as a bbl'd action direct from VGW with an 18" ACE bbl in their Ranch contour, the lightest one they offered several years ago. There was nothing wrong with the ACE bbl - it shot with fine accuracy. But I didn't care for how butt-heavy the rifle was with it, and so pulled the Ranch and replaced it with the Krieger #4 sptr it now wears. I prefer longer barrels over any of the 16"-18" ones I've seen or shot with, and the blank was long enough to finish at 24". But at the time, I was still playing with suppressors quite a bit, and it came down to making a choice between 20" & 22". I left it at 22", after finding that the rifle balances at the front half of the PTG Stealth DBM at that length w/o a can mounted. I like the way it hangs in offhand, and when shooting off a bipod, the extra bit of mass of the 22" bbl keeps it from jumping around the way it did with the lighter bbl. The only changes I've made since that photo was taken was to replace the Midas Tac with the Gen 2 Midas sfp, and to shoot the bbl with CeraKote graphite black.