I purchased one of the 24" versions a few weeks ago. The barrel is stamped made in Germany. It is one heavy SOB, but it seems like a lot of the weight is coming from the action and not the barrel. I compared the barrel to 26" Remington varmint and the SSG 3000 is 1" at the breech, .75" at the muzzle vs 1.2" at the breech and .83" at the muzzle for the Remington. The SSG action has a lot more metal, closed top, and a larger bolt. I haven't had much time to really play with it, but so far it shoots very well. With my 700 I normally put rounds 1-4 in a group around .70" and then blow the 5th round out to about 1.2" (curse of the 5 shot group!), the SSG 3000 puts rounds 1-4 into about .50-.60 and I screw round 5 into the .85 - .90 range. I'm not going to go as far as to say "half-minute all day", but if I can keep this thing sub-moa then I'm sure the potential is there for someone more skilled than I am.
