Green mountain Barrel

[baril182]

Hi guys,

Here in Canada we have some difficulties to buy rifle barrel. One of our distributor are Bits of Piece and it sold Green mountain barrel and Heym Barrel. To make a walking varminter in .300 savage with a 1-15 twist just for shooting 125gr and lighters bullet, will these barrels do the job for the price? SS or Cromoly? They are so cheap i need to know theyr qualities.

Thank
Francis

 

[jscandale]

Francis,

Don't know about Heym, but I can say the Green Mountain produces a gat deal of OEM barrels for many of the big manufacturers I have have the opportunity to machine several of them in the last few months and have been very impressed with their quality.

JS

 

[baril182]

Was it SS or cromoly barrel that you machine? Ever shoot one of them? How about accuracy?

Thank you
Francis

 

[jscandale]

I have used their SS barrels so I don't have to send them out for bluing, but I would not hesitate using a chromoly bbl if the blue finish was desired. I have shot them and have been very pleases with the performance.
I have only recently started to use Green Mountain barrels, but I can tell you that any of the heavy weight wins I have had have been with button rifles.

JS

 

[MrMajestic]

I have a 20" 12tw MGM built GM C/M Contender barrel chambered in .30-30 AI that is a consistent 3/4 MOA with good bullets.

 

[baril182]

MrMajestic,

What kind of bullets, weight and shape are you using? I wish to use 110 V-max or berger 118 grain match on my .300 savage varminter/match project. Has i said before, this project are to duplicate the .30BR performance in a low pressure action (mauser small ring).

Thank you
Francis

 

[MrMajestic]

Nosler 125 grain Ballistic Tips for Whitetails and the V-Max for Woodchucks. Tried the V-Max on Red Fox however "fur unfriendly" is an understatement! Darn near tore them in half! I shoot the 155 grain A-Max and Berger VLD's of the same weight but really like the 2800 fps I am getting from the lighter Nosler's.

 

[mnshortdraw]

The smaller bore GM barrels are button rifled and air guaged, and the bigger bore barrels are cut rifled. They seem to be the best economy blanks avalable. I would rather have one Gm than two ER Shaw's.

 

[MrMajestic]

I would rather have one Gm than two ER Shaw's.

MSD, Don't sugar coat it, tell us how you really feel! ;D

 

[Clark]

I have put a number of Green Mountain barrels on rifles.
They are a lot of bang for the buck.

 

[jscandale]

Green Mountain has 40+ cnc lathes running to production capacity and put out over 1,000,000 barrels per year according to the person that I talk to there. I would imagine that they are probably the largest or close to the largest barrel producer in the country. They must be doing something right!

JS

 

[Indypurdue]

Hello, bought 3 .338 barrels for up coming projects in Vandium steel. Found them to be very hard to work and the very rough bores compared to a Kreiger. They need to be lapped or Tubb's bore system used. Hope this helps!

 

[baril182]

On the Green Mountain website, they are lot cheap in USA but they're sold approximately three time more expensive in Canada. If I compare with a shilen or krieger or douglass, these barrel are in the US three time more expensive than GM barrel so here in Canada they'll be in the 500-800$ range to much for a barrel. A savage FT-R in Cabela's Canada are sold for 1200$. Any of you know a barrel maker that will ship his product to a Canadian customer?

 

[marshman]

On the Green Mountain website, they are lot cheap in USA but they're sold approximately three time more expensive in Canada. If I compare with a shilen or krieger or douglass, these barrel are in the US three time more expensive than GM barrel so here in Canada they'll be in the 500-800$ range to much for a barrel. A savage FT-R in Cabela's Canada are sold for 1200$. Any of you know a barrel maker that will ship his product to a Canadian customer?

Talk to Jerry @ http://www.mysticprecision.com/wp/ (he's in Canada) he'll hook you up for a realistic price.
whoever would sell a barrel for 3 times the value is a crook...........

 

[baril182]

Thank you marshman i'll see what i can do with this one.

Francis