The cook is very important no doubt, but you cant polish a dog turd. The best smith use the best components, just like the best chefs use the best ingrediants.
As far as a dog turd is concerned I have 4 rifles with Krieger match grade barrels and my 300 win has a Douglas and it shoots as good as my best Kreiger and better the others.The only rifle that I had to send back because of a barrel that did not shoot was a Krieger.I am not saying that Douglas is better just in my experience they are not dog turds.
I got banned on another web site for a debate that happened on this site. That's a first
