AR barrel question
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I agree, despite having a friend wHO likes Faxon barrels. So I bought a 20" in .244 Valkerie. It would not group at all with many different loads. Faxon did replace the barrel and the new one is better, but still not particularly accurate. I will try a few more loads and if I can't get sub moa groups replace the barrel with a better one. By the way the barrel is very attractive and from all appearances is a quality piece, just not accurate.
I bought a 22" valkyrie barrel on sale over black Friday. Won't be testing it for a few months to know about grouping, but the barrel itself looks really nice in the hand.
I know they don't offer an MOA guarantee at all. If you watch some of the YouTube videos about them, they have someone I'm assuming high up in the company explaining that if you can't get their barrels to shoot well, it's the fault of the system, not their barrel.
I know they don't offer an MOA guarantee at all. If you watch some of the YouTube videos about them, they have someone I'm assuming high up in the company explaining that if you can't get their barrels to shoot well, it's the fault of the system, not their barrel.
Blaming customers is like, the first thing they teach in business school right?
I don't hear any love for them on the other discussions here.
A monkey could make a barrel that looks nice, not a very complicated shape to get right...
I don't hear any love for them on the other discussions here.
A monkey could make a barrel that looks nice, not a very complicated shape to get right...
I am not sure what that means. I am a bit of a barrel and scope nerd, and shooting begins with a reliable accurate barrel. The most important part of the rifle, is the barrel. If it is not accurate, how is that good ?
I spend a fair amount of time with different barrels, and have worked with barrel smiths and blank makers and have come to know a thing or two about barrels. Not everything, and certainly still learning. The barrel begins with the steel and then the blank maker and ends with the shaper and chambering and reaming and, in the case of a gas gun, the gas port and timing of the extension. Barrel blank makers are getting better and better, but there are still a handful of names that I rely upon for barrels. And they are different names for 10.3" to 14.7" than they are 18" to 24," and different steels and so forth. The name you mention is not one that I am familiar with. I mean, I have heard of the name, but I have not used it or recommended it.
It all depends upon what you use the rifle for, and how important MOA or sub-MOA accuracy is, and conversely, how important durability is. They tend to be inversely related. There are plenty of barrels that will get you 1.5 - 2.0 MOA all day long, and even at 300 yards, that is enough to hit an enemy human target. In fact, the US military originally designed the M4 to be 1.5 MOA, if memory serves me, so not everything needs to have a perfect shot. If you are shooting to 800 yards or more, you will most likely want more accuracy than if you are shooting 50 to 300 yards. All of a sudden, 1 MOA starts to matter. So does velocity of the bullet, and so forth.
There are better options than Faxon for precision work, which is I assume what you want given the length and material. IMHO best value right now is to get Craddock to spin you up a Rock Creek for $285. If you want to spend less, Criterion and Larue have good offerings.
If you dont want to go custom route, the 2 best options for price/performance ratio out there are Rainier Ultramatch and WOA barrels. Ive owned, tested and built more than I can count using both of these brands and they have always been submoa with factory ammo and 0.5-.75moa with handloads.
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