I have used a couple of melonited barrels for AR performance and been very pleased. They are as thin a profile I have seen, come standard in .223 Wylde and tend to be in stock most of the time.

Hunt hard, kill clean, waste nothing and offer no apologies.

"In rifle work, group size is of some interest...but it is well to remember that a rifleman does not shoot groups, he shoots shots." Jeff Cooper