Originally Posted by Jeff_O
Originally Posted by Igloo
What do you guys who have had them think? If all else was the same, is it worth paying about $150 more for the stainless version? Has it held up okay for you?

I've had the matte version but never the stainless.


All I have are stainless... 7 of them I think. It rains a lot here in hunting season.

I know the guys who build lots of hunting rifles will say to always use a stainless barrel, even with a blued receiver, because the barrel is the one place where rust/pitting makes a functional difference.

Obviously, I think stainless is worth the extra $150. smile


This reminds me. A long time back I was looking at what people here thought of cerakote and someone said "why would you go with that when what counts is inside? Your bore is more important, just buy stainless" and I had never realized that before...sad as it is to say.

If you have 7 of the Remingtons and they are all holding up, great! After seeing the SPS I was really wondering.

But I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier,
The last of Barrett's Privateers