That's a little disingenuous: as you well know, Shilen, Bartlein, Rock Creek, Criterion, Douglas, Lilja & Wilson (not Wilson Combat) at least, are all prime barrel manufacturers in that they drill, ream & rifle barrels
Craddock, CLE & WOA machine blanks from some of those people..
I have an interesting anecdote related to this statement. Years ago, there was an M14 assembler that wanted to crack the AR15 Highpower market. Rather than put out good products that spoke for themselves, he chose to make statements like a Krieger barrel is not a "real Krieger" unless it was contoured and chambered by Krieger. At that time, Krieger was chambering their Service Rifle barrels with a 223 Match reamer which was short in the throat and known for showing pressures way before you got to speed with the long bullets . Turns out this guy didn't have the capability of contouring and chambering his own barrels from blanks, so he chose to try to turn his deficit into a selling point. He also had a statement on his webpage that he would not warranty an upper that was fired with handloads. Problem is that at that time, we were using bullets (77's, 80's and 90's) that were not being loaded by any factory. The heaviest of the day was 69's from Federal which got you to the 200 and maybe the 300 yard line, but would leave you crying at 600 and beyond.
