kmw1954
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In all honesty I am very skeptical of this round count and the reason for the so soon replacement. But I am still new to this so what do I know. If I had the answer I wouldn't be here asking this question.
In all honesty I am very skeptical of this round count and the reason for the so soon replacement. But I am still new to this so what do I know. If I had the answer I wouldn't be here asking this question.
Which 6mm cartridge are you looking at? There are a lot of very reasonably priced Savage pre-fit barrels floating around and custom orders from some shops aren't much more (though there is wait time).I edited to this point as that is one of my concerns is that this barrel is overpriced as used. About $100.00 below the cost of new. They are firm on their price. This is a Savage rifle and the only tool I would need right now are the go-no go gauges.
But I questioned myself too as to why this barrel was removed so soon. I asked and was given a reason but not sure I buy it.
I understand about tweaking and breaking things apart and Savages are easy to replace. I put a new barrel on my 30-06 Savage because I wanted a 26" barrel and I could hit milk jugs at 500 with the factory barrel it came with. The barrel exchange did not occur until years later when I started to shoot longer ranges with it, and it was just a hunting rifle.I have a buddy that’s a gun smith, I stop by from time to time to BS and see what he’s working on and what parts he’s got left over. It’s not uncommon at all for people to bring him new rifles that are getting premium barrels installed.
Kind of like the brand new GT 500’s I have destroyed the factory super chargers just turning them into manifolds with heat exchangers inside for inter cooling and adding twin turbochargers, some people just can’t leave things alone and like to spend money.
I suppose I would be more skeptical if it wasn’t so easy to drop a bore scope down the bore to check its condition.
Folks I don't mean to be so vague but I do not know if the seller may be a visitor here and it's not my intention to disparage anyone.
The barrel in question is an inexpensive one. Lists for just under $300.00 so we are not looking at a Bartlein, Brux or Krieger product. Reason for removal was to replace it with a Match grade barrel.
I have in jest teased a couple of my shooting friends that I could take one of their 2k round take-off match barrels and still probably shoot better with it than with what I am using now.
. I waste more than $200 per year on Oreos, so risking that on a barrel wouldn’t cause me much concern.
it probably would not be a fair comparison of a 223 over an unknown condition 6mm to help make a decision over which one to finally settle on