Hey folks,
Just wanted to chime in and tell anyone that if there is a manufacturing issue with a Bartlein AR barrel, to please give me a call in the shop. We will run your barrel through our standard inspection/warranty process. This involves a short conversation and looking at the barrel to determine what's wrong. After that, we will work with you to make it right. I am not perfect, and sometimes I am not fast, but I will do my best to take care of you.
What we can tell you right now is that if you need finish work done, or want to source another blank, we have two other recommended shops: First is Craddock Precision. We do use Craddock for in house personal projects for the employees, but Paul does all the finish work on our Bartleins.
The other shop that has accolades in the high power community is White Oak Armament. Both of these outfits have done excellent work, and we have high confidence in them. I do not know about the Illinois AWB and cannot speak to that, so do your own research and due diligence.
There are some other good shops out there, so if you know of one, don't be offended if I didn't mention them. I just know these outfits get blanks from us on the regular.
Craddock and White Oak each specialize in a little bit different area, so please do your research depending on what you want done. They both use Bartleins and other blanks, so you can pick and choose depending on your price and system.
At this time we do not have any information on the CLE issue, we just wanted to let you know that our warranty always has, and will continue to remain in place, but you have to communicate with us and we
ALWAYS look at the blank before we determine what we are going to do. We will not just send you a replacement on your word - that bridge has been burnt too many times.
Feel free to call me if you need anything else. The next best way to contact us if you don't get us on the phone is drop an email.
Brady @ Bartlein / 262-677-1717 / info (at) bartleinbarrels (dot) com
www.craddockprecision.com
www.whiteoakarmament.com