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Here is the pick. Brand new barrel purchased a couple weeks ago (.223 wylde). This is a widespread problem at this point unfortunately. Same for the threading problem. Maybe its wore out equipment. The brass was trashed coming out of this barrel. One completely tore apart about a half inch above the rim. Every other piece of fired brass had the same cuts in them except they happened to hold together. I do not have a picture of the brass but if my buddy gets a pic to me then I will send that as well. Like I said earlier BA hasn't responded back to him yet. Order from a reputable dealer that will take care of you if you get a bad one because BA is hard to get ahold to.
He has an 18" heavier fluted barrel from them he purchased about a year ago and it shoots great.
Wide spread is probably an over statement, but this is definately not a one off. Apparently BA has been having quality control problems as of late. I am not an AR guy by any means. My shooting buddy definately is and is a member of ar15.com and told me about the problems people have been having as of late. I mentioned these in a previous post. Like I said earlier, he has a fluted 18” barrel from them that he likes. I am just passing on information to the OP. I seen this lemon barrel first hand. It is completely unsafe to shoot. And i am also letting OP know that they havent been quick to get back to him. The vendor has taken care of him though. I have no skin in the game.Define wide spread problem... this is news to many of us including myself. My hansen profile shoots great. I am not saying that you didn't get a lemon but i have heard very few bad reviews.
Time for a 6x6.I have a 20" 6.5 CM barrel from them that shoots .3 MOA. I also have a 8" 300 BO barrel that shoots under 1 MOA. For the price I don't believe there is a better barrel available today.
I have a 14.5” 308 bbl from BA..pretty good little bbl..I built a compact hunting upper ..I did get it to shoot 1” MOA ..like the manufacture calims with, my reloads
Unless you are going Ultra-budget and want to spend like $150 on your barrel, there is no reason to fuck around with BA. They are budget barrels that are just above PSAs in quality. No one has ever shown one in 5.56 doing <1moa 5x5 consistently. Their "MOA Guarantee" is marketing BS, it is ONE THREE SHOT GROUP mag fed...
If you want accurate barrel that don't cost an arm and a leg there are so many better options: Larue, Criterion/ADM, Triarc, Rock Creek from Craddock, Criterions from CLE or Keystone, CRA/BHW, AR Performance, 16in Lothar Walther. All far better options, all between $200-300 or so.
Unless you are going Ultra-budget and want to spend like $150 on your barrel, there is no reason to fuck around with BA. They are budget barrels that are just above PSAs in quality. No one has ever shown one in 5.56 doing <1moa 5x5 consistently. Their "MOA Guarantee" is marketing BS, it is ONE THREE SHOT GROUP mag fed...
If you want accurate barrel that don't cost an arm and a leg there are so many better options: Larue, Criterion/ADM, Triarc, Rock Creek from Craddock, Criterions from CLE or Keystone, CRA/BHW, AR Performance, 16in Lothar Walther. All far better options, all between $200-300 or so.
There quality control is horrible out of 2 barrels 1 hansen ( miss drilled gas block wouldn't cycle ) and 2nd per kyle "Not up to our standards on premium" ( pretty bad when a low line barrel maker says his product is not up to there low standards which standards must be real LOW )
there junk and priced for junk.
There are outliers in every manufacturer's production line. But claiming over and over again that a barrel maker is junk because you had a bad experience...especially since your experience is in the vast minority here kind of makes me want to dismiss your complaints as sour grapes. I get that you may have gotten a lemon, maybe two, but there are literally hundreds of reports across the internet to the contrary as well.
I own three BA barrels, a 8" 300 BO that shoots @1" pretty consistently, a 6.5 CM that shoots typically well below 1/2" and usually is closer to .3" and a new fluted 16" .223 Wylde that has been to the range once but shot close to 1/2" after break-in. Do they shoot like my JP barrels? NO. Do they shoot like a Kreiger? NO. But My expectations are in line with the price I paid for the product. Needless to say they make barrels that shoot very well and there are plenty of people that are very happy with their products.
Now if you had a bad CS experience, that's a little different. But I will say that Ballistic Advantage does a lot of manufacturing for other companies (Aero, DSG, etc.). Not every business can just stop everything right then and there to deal with every complaint that comes in the door. There's got to be a balance.
What makes it come across as sour grapes is the fact that since May you have a full 1/4 of the posts in this thread and they are all negative, and not necessarily constructive. Just my opinion here, but any value that you may have had in you initial post gets lost after seeing multiple negative posts simply declaring them as "junk". Just comes across as baseless and undermines any good info you may have put out initially. Again just my opinion here.Although I disagree in it being sour grapes,
I respect what you have said.
Just wanted to add this I've used several ba barrels in 308 and 223/556. Always had good luck /good customer service. All will shoot 1" @ 100 yards with handloads. However in their price range I agree there are better options. I built a 6.5 Creedmoor with a 16" WC barrel. I load tested it and was able to get the gun to do 1" but not much better. After shooting it for 3 months I emailed WC wondering if this was typical of their 6.5 Creedmoor barrels. I received a call back and after chatting they offered to take the barrel back and upgrade for free that's rite . I sent them a barrel that was 3 months old and had a slr/wc7 gas block mounted on it. I got back a heavier profile barrel I chose and a slr/wc8 gas block . At no extra charge . Not even shipping. This barrel shoots lights out to 600 yards which is as far as I have access. The customer service and barrel were so good I ordered a 308 20" barrel from WC 2 weeks ago. Yesterday without any break in I shot the best groups I've ever shot with a 308 using that barrel. Absolutely Amazing . Same price as a BA barrel but far superior in my experience.
A lot of claims of 1moa in here with no pics. I've yet to see a BA barrel in 5.56 (what OP is talking about) do <1moa 5x5 consistently anywhere. You occasionally get even a fluke PSA barrel that will do 1moa 5x5, but it certainly isn' the average across the board, and the fact that we see none for BA says a lot.
Again, the only reason to buy a BA barrel is if you want to spend <$175 or so.
I have a BA 16" midlength pencil barrel. It seems accurate enough. When I sighted it in with open sights it put 10rds of M193 into about 1.25" at 50yds. It is however the most OVER gassed barrel I've run across in quite awhile. I run a 9mm 5.5oz buffer in it and it still slings tula steel 15ft.
For reference I have a PSA 16" pencil barrel that won't run tula with a standard 3oz carbine buffer.
I doubt I'll ever own another BA barrel. Most carbine gas 16" barrels I've run across aren't as over gassed as this BA.
BHW barrels used to be all the rage in this price range, any reason they dont seem to be as popular anymore after becoming CRA?
I had a barrel with an issue on the accuracy. They wanted it back sent me a new one after break in around 80 rds. put up a .279 MOA. Very happy with the way it worked out took about 3 weeks turnaround.
That's kinda a long turn around if its a in stock barrel imo.
That's the way it should be, you pay for something and you get it.