Which Barrel

[ray1970]

I am a hand loader and do want good accuracy but more important to me is the barrel life. I would rather pay a little more and have the barrel last me a few thousand rds more.

Unless you are retired and have plenty of time and money to shoot very often it would be really difficult to wear out a barrel on a semi-auto rifle. I had a friend who probably had over 20,000 rounds on his rifle and it was still shooting quite well with the original Bushmaster barrel. If I truly planned to shoot a rifle enough to wear a barrel out I would probably buy the cheapest barrel I could find since I would be replacing it once or twice anyways.

[bobbyfairbanks]

Hum Barrels wear out and unless you only shoot at bottles 20 feet away from you you will notice it.

[Great-Kazoo]

Unless you are retired and have plenty of time and money to shoot very often it would be really difficult to wear out a barrel on a semi-auto rifle. I had a friend who probably had over 20,000 rounds on his rifle and it was still shooting quite well with the original Bushmaster barrel. If I truly planned to shoot a rifle enough to wear a barrel out I would probably buy the cheapest barrel I could find since I would be replacing it once or twice anyways.

agreed.

[djkest]

It really depends what you are looking for.

Want excellent accuracy out to 300+ meters? Get a stainless-steel barrel, something like Noveske, WOA, and others (many choices). WOA is one of the best values in Stainless barrels I've been told.

Want something with long life? Any of the Chrome-lined barrels will have a long life at the expense of accuracy. BCM, DD, LMT, there are a lot of good choices for the money.

[Combatmatt]

black hole weaponry.

[buckshotbarlow]

nummy bbls and they shoot gud 2.