for 495 one could get a barrel from a known maker, top of hte line, that will actually answer questions.
A sucker born every minute I guess.
Yeah but the LaRue comes with a free hat, bottle opener, and grill seasoning (sarcasm). It also seems to come with a membership to Mark LaRue's cult like fan club. All jokes aside, I won't bash him too much, his rifles tend to shoot extremely well.........and he is sending me a free MBT trigger so I don't want to get on his bad side.
As for the suckers, look at the top rankings in the SPR division of this challenge:
http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_16_17/51___ARFCOM_1_MOA_ALL_DAY_LONG__Challenge_.html