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Where did all the barrels go?

My new 223 Urban Rifleman barrel took two weeks. So far it has shot 1/2 MOA with 85.5 Bergers, 75ELDM, 53 vmax, and Surprise! Today it shot a ragged one hole group with 40g vmax. It is doing things it is not supposed to do. 7 twist with ISSF long freebore. All that joy for a 2-3 week wait at the lowest price on the market.
Buy one of these to get you by until you can get that magic pipe from the high dollar folks
I understand competition guys want the very best no matter the cost but… you go prairie dogging the wind will negate the diff between the two choices— for me anyway so I am an Urban guy from now on.
 
I don't want to hijack this thread,but since barrels are hard to get would it make any sense to have the gun barrels you shot out shortened and rechambered?
 
I got my barrel at Bug holes Sir jmoeller22
And had Lester Bruno do my chamber work on the 7 PRCW back up barrel for later in the season.
Did not know you were interested...could have PM me and we could have chatted.
You have a nice day as well my friend.
 
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It is crazy. I am having a 30br built as a fun gun. I wanted a 1-17 twist 1.25 straight barrel. Krieger was out over a year, along with some other really long wait times for others. Called Hart, and they said 3 months, so I went with that. Next week, on Bruno’s I found the exact barrel I was lookinG for. It was 31 inches but it worked. So now I have two.

First time buying from Bruno’s. Their barrel selection seemed really good.
 
It is cool to see some of my shooting heroes posting here! I probably don't know as much as you all, but it sure seems to me that PRS and long range shooting have gone crazy the last several years. So has the number of affordable custom actions. These shooters all need custom barrels, and are the type to burn em out. I'm a prairie dog hunter and I like to plink steel at 1k plus on public land. Never thought I would burn out barrels, but I better order the next 6mm now!
 
JumboSammich said:
I don't want to hijack this thread,but since barrels are hard to get would it make any sense to have the gun barrels you shot out shortened and rechambered?
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Many Gunsmiths will not re Chamber a used barrel. They say the heat and pressure hardens the area to be rechambered and will ruin a reamer.
I do not find this to be true. I set my own Stainless Steel barrels back on a regular basis. I like keeping the throats as fresh as possible.

But keep in mind, the way I do my chambers makes setting them back up in the exact way every time easy.

With shipping cost up so much and the fact that Gunsmiths have to charge darn near as much for a set back as a new chamber, many think it is cost prohibitive.

If you do your own barrels, all you are out is your own time.
 
I pulled a free Krieger barrel cert at a match this summer. I called to go over some details and asked, how long?
I was told 1 year. Fast forward 2 weeks and I get a call asking about the finish length. Turns out someone canceled an order for my exact barrel. A week later, I got it!. I've also been looking for another 22rf barrel for a year. Seems RF barrels are harder to get than LRM primers or Rel26. One pops up on the Krieger site last week! Got it yesterday! Gunsmiths standing order of 50 barrels at a time combined with outfits like Southern Precisions standing order, which has to be huge. You have to be on your toes for sure.
 
Forget who it was but when I called one barrel manufacturer, I was told they had a big order from South Africa that had to be filled first so there's another fly in the ointment, international orders.
 
I've had two barrels that came from large volume sources with really rough outside finishes. I'd imagine that with that type of volume, the outer finish isn't the top priority. And I agree.

Dropping the diamond stylus on one of them, I probably would have heard Boz Scaggs and Duane Allman. :cool:

 
D Coots said:
Barrel makers are in business to fill a need, and to Make Money. It's the American way. Get in business and start from scratch like Tracy Bartlein did...nothing to it..................
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Well. That's kind of what we're being taught these days. That the American way is about money. Actually that was never true until just recently when this certain group of people took over.

Henry Ford started his company because he wanted to make cars. Henry Ford just liked making things. He liked giving a man a job. He liked the pride that went with it. He did not particularly care about money, never did. This was the age of the industrialist. They had to go borrow money from the capitalists who didn't care about making anything except money. He fought the capitalists his entire life.

Henry Ford was a great man, and he was an "America first" man through and through. And not a fake one like we have today.

Not to cause a drift from the thread but I thought a little history perspective was in order.
 
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