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Posted: 10/6/2024 12:16:10 AM EDT
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Which one of these 3 would be the most accurate chrome lined barrel?
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Posted: 10/6/2024 6:23:09 AM EDT
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A couple of 16" and am 11.5" in 556 from DD, all will do 1moa with match ammo. 16" 308 will do the same most of the time.
sample size of 2 criterion, 13.9" 556 is a 1MOA gun with match ammo, 16" 308 is the same most of the time. All chrome lined. Can't go wrong with either. |
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Posted: 10/6/2024 9:52:00 AM EDT
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Originally Posted By Tug153: Which one of these 3 would be the most accurate chrome lined barrel? Every barrel is an anomaly. Even if someone had all three, and posted their results with their ammo, it doesn't mean those results will translate to another example of the same barrel. All are quality vendors. I would lean Criterion, personally. |
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Posted: 10/6/2024 12:20:25 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By s4s4u: Every barrel is an anomaly. Even if someone had all three, and posted their results with their ammo, it doesn't mean those results will translate to another example of the same barrel. All are quality vendors. I would lean Criterion, personally. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By s4s4u: Originally Posted By Tug153: Which one of these 3 would be the most accurate chrome lined barrel? Every barrel is an anomaly. Even if someone had all three, and posted their results with their ammo, it doesn't mean those results will translate to another example of the same barrel. All are quality vendors. I would lean Criterion, personally. Second post says it perfectly. |
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Posted: 10/6/2024 2:17:14 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By s4s4u: Every barrel is an anomaly. Even if someone had all three, and posted their results with their ammo, it doesn't mean those results will translate to another example of the same barrel. All are quality vendors. I would lean Criterion, personally. Excellent answer and true With that said I have three DD barrels. 1 LW 14.5 midlength, 1 government 14.5 midlength and a 11.5 carbine. As well as a 13.9 core midlength and a 14.5 midlength. If I am shooting for groups out of my batches the 14.5 LW DD shoots the best out of all of them. All three DDs shoot all ranges of ammo more consistent but the cores like the 69g smk really well. So with me it leans DD but a buddy has a 16” core that is a tac driver that shoots like a Larue barrel. All depends on each barrel and shooter |
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Posted: 10/7/2024 8:10:19 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By s4s4u: Every barrel is an anomaly. Even if someone had all three, and posted their results with their ammo, it doesn't mean those results will translate to another example of the same barrel. All are quality vendors. I would lean Criterion, personally. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By s4s4u: Originally Posted By Tug153: Which one of these 3 would be the most accurate chrome lined barrel? Every barrel is an anomaly. Even if someone had all three, and posted their results with their ammo, it doesn't mean those results will translate to another example of the same barrel. All are quality vendors. I would lean Criterion, personally. Yeah I like criterion but every barrel is different. I’ve had four or five by now. I currently have two because they outshot the others with the ammo I like. My 13.9 will do at or a little under MOA with AAC 75BT and my 12.5 will do closer to 3/4 MOA. At least a lot of the time. I spend a lot of time shooting, I weed out barrels that don’t shoot to my satisfaction, I true&glue and optimize torque values etc, so YMMV and all that. |
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Posted: 10/7/2024 8:15:10 AM EDT
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In my experience most of the quality chrome lined barrels shoot pretty comparably.
Now if you ditch the chrome I'd say bartlein. |
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Posted: 10/7/2024 8:43:58 AM EDT
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To me, it depends on profile and length you want. For example, dd doesn't have a light weight 11.5" chf cl barrel so you would have to look at the other two.
The rest of the factors are going to be mostly luck fonthe draw but all should shot well. I've heard rumors that a few years ago g barrels had some issues but im sure those are fixed at this point. The other two always get glowing reviews. |
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Posted: 10/9/2024 10:01:41 AM EDT
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I've been super impressed with a 14.5 G barrel and love the profile. Right there with DD chrome line barrels, which are some of the best and most accurate barrels out there in my experience.
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Posted: 10/9/2024 1:20:23 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Voland: To me, it depends on profile and length you want. For example, dd doesn't have a light weight 11.5" chf cl barrel so you would have to look at the other two. The rest of the factors are going to be mostly luck fonthe draw but all should shot well. I've heard rumors that a few years ago g barrels had some issues but im sure those are fixed at this point. The other two always get glowing reviews. I had an early G SD and it kinda sucked for precision. It was fine, but I could never get it under 2 MOA with any consistency and I gave it a good effort. It’s not a bench gun but in this day we have hard use rifles that shoot great too, and we shouldn’t have to pick. I do hear they’re better now, and for all I know they were better then and I just got a lemon. Sample size of one and all that. I’m completely willing to accept that if I gave them another go I’d have completely different results. |
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