It has enough meat to accept my suppressor where a purely steel barrel of the same weight wouldn't.
Please expound on this here…
Suppressors typically need around 0.7” of diameter at the shoulder to ensure stability and eliminate the risk of a baffle strike.
I can use a carbon wrap barrel and have plenty of shoulder diameter. To get the same shoulder diameter with a steel barrel, I will have a much, much heavier barrel. There is an exception, the barrels that trumpet out toward the muzzle. I think Browning is the only factory rifle I’ve seen made this way, and Shilen makes barrel blanks that way.
