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Who makes longer, 21", 223 cal, high quality, barrels for AR's? What are good prices?
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Longer than 21" or 21" exactly?
Lots of places offer longer barrels. Your options are only limited by your budget.
White Oak Armament/ Precision is a good place to start. They offer everything from match grade button rifled barrels at good prices to full custom barrels from top of the line blanks.
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21", give our take a bit. Not exact.
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21", give our take a bit. Not exact. 20", 22", and 24" are fairly common. Search through Rainier Arm's website for several examples of good quality long barrels.
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A White Oak Armament 20" SDM barrel would be tough to beat. 20" in length and fluted under the handguards.
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White Oak is my recommendation as well. They will do customs, or at least they used to. The standard barrels (Wilson??) they sell are a good value. Krieger cut rifled will get you about 1000 rounds extra barrel life and maybe a touch better accuracy, but there are no flies on their standard barrels. Each of the three I have have been sub 3/4 MOA using iron sights shot from prone.
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Shilen makes a great 24 inch barrel if you don't mind a heavy rifle
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A White Oak Armament 20" SDM barrel would be tough to beat. 20" in length and fluted under the handguards. Yup, superb balance and super accurate. As I recall the 700 was cut back to 21".
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Where are the reference points for measuring a barrel of an AR? I'd like to see what mine is.
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Where are the reference points for measuring a barrel of an AR? I'd like to see what mine is. Close the bolt and run a cleaning rod in from the muzzle to the bolt face. Mark it at the muzzle and measure the rod. Or for a quick & rough estimate, just measure from the back edge of the barrel nut or handguard. Remember about 5/8" of the barrel is inside the flash hider.
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check out black hole weaponry they offer lots of lengths and contours. I might also consider a custom krieger one of these days when I get bored. BHW usually has a shot show special too.
looks like your wanting more speed, there are definate gains to be had handloading, you probably already know that. all I shoot mostly is stuff below 60 grains, I can't find anything that beats 8208 for speed and accuracy in 3 different AR barrels.
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