I know this got glossed over, but this dude has probably chambered more barrels from more manufactures than just about anyone out there, while also being one of if not biggest rifle barrel sellers out there. He is also one of the few smiths I would trust to make a barrel for me, as I have never heard a bad thing about bugholes/ SPR in over a decade. If this is what Greg thinks, its probably not far from the truth.
It may be a rare time where we agree, but this is so very true. I have 2 barrels in the works with them right now.
The women have been lying to us for years!
Those Stuteville prefits are good value, but I’m not Team Impact. I’d like good data before throwing $900-1.1K on blank/chamber/muzzle/coating a CRB.
Well if you buy 10 of them, Austin with throw in a custom crate. Would make a gnarly cofee table.
The rising cost of blanks is a lil ridiculous too. $425ish is Bartlein or Krieger before the last round of price increases.
That's true, but look for free shipping from some venders...if they have the correct rifling, contour, length, etc. Bruno's has such deals.
With respect--There is no such thig as free shipping, you are paying for it somewhere
depends what you mean good. I wouldn't consider them anywhere near the brux/bart/krieg/Muller level certainly.
With barrels, I'd expect that everyone is using pretty high precision CNC machines. Most good CNC's are down to 0.001" or so of accuracy. With barrel mfgs making the same barrels the same way, is one paying a huge premium for reputation vs steel quality? How would a person objectively qualify a good barrel from a great barrel?
Even with porn, you might like midgets but me not so much. Still, it's porn but not having the desired affect.
I think that was the point the guy (Reverend Falwell? Some anti-smut senator? Paging some ancient evangelical to tell us who was leading the anti-porn crusade circa 1972) was making when he said that.. probably nearly 60 years ago now. Long before my time. The point being, a “good”barrel should probably need essentially no break in, shoot better than average with most/any bullet, resist fouling, clean easily, not require much if any “foulers” after a cleaning, etc.. A great barrel does all those things and hammers in a way that is nearly magical. It can’t help itself but stack bullets. Hard to quantify and subjective but you’ll know when you have one.
No 2 barrels are the same! Each has its own peculiarities. That said in general practice Cut Rifle barrels are more likely to be hammers and have less stress. You buy reputation and thee get a great smith to chamber and thread it. Again you buy reputation and are more likely to get a great shooting barrel. Just because some nitwit has a cnc machine does not mean anything. There are great smiths using ancient lathes and turning out spectacular barrels. It is all about the skill of the person running the tool!
Fuck, your government teacher in high school really failed you. Threshold test for “obscenity”.
This is pretty much the current struggle. It's the man and reamer doing the chamber. (providing all the barrels are of the same or close quality; the chamber isnt the only difference between say a faxon and a bartlein)
This is pretty ignorant, especially when barrel makers have to control down to .0001 or less. They also are not making barrels the same way. You should go educate yourself on the subject before speaking about it and sounding foolish.
Turns out a deep dive on the history of 1A cases centering around obscenity was pretty low on the list of potential curricula in a small, rural high school in a community of conservatives. They couldn’t even teach real science because the hillbillies couldn’t distinguish between adaptation and natural selection and evolution. To use another quote from before I was born, when I think back on all the crap I learned in high school, it’s a wonder I can think at all.
Given what I’ve already said about the local cultural climate, you think there was a lot of air given to racial segregation or abortion?
