someguy2800
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I am constantly fiddling with my AR's changing barrels looking for the next thing. My favorite is my 16" 7.62x39 side charging build, which I was using a Delta Team Tactical 16" barrel. When I got the barrel they sent me the wrong one. I ordered a medium profile barrel but they sent me a bull barrel. I sent them an email letting them know but the one I wanted was out of stock so I put it together anyway with the bull barrel. That barrel has been working great and shot 2 moa with wolf ammo but it is really heavy.
Well recently I was on there site ordering a BCG for a 9mm build and saw they had the barrel I originally wanted in stock so I ordered it.
https://www.deltateamtactical.com/Famous-No-Fail-16-762X39-AR15-Melonite-Hbar-Barrel_p_4056.html
Barrel came in today so I swapped it out after work. Just looking down the barrel the bore looks absolutely awful. The chamber was nicely centered and the throat cut nicely, but there was so much burs and tooling marks in the barrel it looked like they had rifled a sewer pipe. It would tear all the lint off a cotton patch run down the barrel. So I got out some lapping compound, covered a patch with it and ran it through the bore to smooth it out. It polished out nicely in just like 20 strokes or so but still has alot of tooling marks on the lands. Here it is on my upper. It weighs 32.5 ounces on my scale and the old one was 37.5
I shot one round just to check the gas setting, no adjustment needed. Then 4 more over the chrono. 2430 fps average with wolf MC 124 gr HP's.
Took it out to the bench to shoot it, and here is the first group at 100 yards. The round above the target was the first shot. I adjusted down 2 minutes and right .5 minutes and shot 4 more. Group measures .70" center to center.
Next group I adjusted up .5 minutes. Group measures exactly 1" center to center.
One last group to verify. I know you'll think this sounds like I'm making it up but I pulled the last shop high because I had a wood tick crawling on my face. It measures .9" without the pulled shot and 1.5" with it.
I am absolutely thrilled with the accuracy from this barrel considering I'm shooting steel case wolf ammo I paid $4.20 a box for. I did have one round that had a bolt over base failure to feed, whereas I have never had one single malfunction of any kind with the old one. When I was putting it together I noticed this has the normal feed ramps for a 223 barrel extension instead of the oversize feed ramps that work best in 7.62 barrel.
New barrel on the left, old one on the right.
I didn't want to mess with a brand new barrel before I knew if it shot or not, but after shooting it I took the barrel back out of the upper and opened up the feed ramps to roughly match the old barrel
So anyway I am ecstatic how this barrel is shooting and I'm thinking of ordering another just to put on the shelf.
Well recently I was on there site ordering a BCG for a 9mm build and saw they had the barrel I originally wanted in stock so I ordered it.
https://www.deltateamtactical.com/Famous-No-Fail-16-762X39-AR15-Melonite-Hbar-Barrel_p_4056.html
Barrel came in today so I swapped it out after work. Just looking down the barrel the bore looks absolutely awful. The chamber was nicely centered and the throat cut nicely, but there was so much burs and tooling marks in the barrel it looked like they had rifled a sewer pipe. It would tear all the lint off a cotton patch run down the barrel. So I got out some lapping compound, covered a patch with it and ran it through the bore to smooth it out. It polished out nicely in just like 20 strokes or so but still has alot of tooling marks on the lands. Here it is on my upper. It weighs 32.5 ounces on my scale and the old one was 37.5
I shot one round just to check the gas setting, no adjustment needed. Then 4 more over the chrono. 2430 fps average with wolf MC 124 gr HP's.
Took it out to the bench to shoot it, and here is the first group at 100 yards. The round above the target was the first shot. I adjusted down 2 minutes and right .5 minutes and shot 4 more. Group measures .70" center to center.
Next group I adjusted up .5 minutes. Group measures exactly 1" center to center.
One last group to verify. I know you'll think this sounds like I'm making it up but I pulled the last shop high because I had a wood tick crawling on my face. It measures .9" without the pulled shot and 1.5" with it.
I am absolutely thrilled with the accuracy from this barrel considering I'm shooting steel case wolf ammo I paid $4.20 a box for. I did have one round that had a bolt over base failure to feed, whereas I have never had one single malfunction of any kind with the old one. When I was putting it together I noticed this has the normal feed ramps for a 223 barrel extension instead of the oversize feed ramps that work best in 7.62 barrel.
New barrel on the left, old one on the right.
I didn't want to mess with a brand new barrel before I knew if it shot or not, but after shooting it I took the barrel back out of the upper and opened up the feed ramps to roughly match the old barrel
So anyway I am ecstatic how this barrel is shooting and I'm thinking of ordering another just to put on the shelf.