Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Custom Rifles & Wildcats Group Buy for Barrel Blanks.

My first choice would be Krieger but they might be hard to get much of a discount as they have a very large and loyal customer base. Second is Bartlein because in their short life they have established a great reputation for quality and service. I believe Bartlein would be a good one to work with. They are young and growing company looking for more customers.

Next choice for me will be Rock. They have a reputation of working well with group buys and make an outstanding barrel. Krieger and Bartlein only make cut rifled barrels. Rock Creek top of the line cut rifled barrels and will also make what they call �OEM Barrels� which are pull buttoned barrels.

Then I would pick Lilja, Pac-Nor and last, Lothar-Walther. I put Walther last not because of their barrels but because of the problem finding a smith to do a good job chambering one. Two years ago I purchased three L-W barrels. Still looking at two of them. The one I had chambered does not shoot any better than my factory guns. I talked a smith, who has a great reputation, into chambering it and that was a mistake.

From what I have heard and read, Rock Creek would be the place to start. If anyone knows who ran the buy over at snipershide, contact him and ask for help. Or anywhere else you know of that had a group buy.

Yea verily! Whoops grab that tabby sneaking away over there!

Jim Brockman has fit Lothar-Walther barrels for some time, and the barrel he put on a .375 H&H for me liked to shoot everything to the same POI.

The only group buy I had the patience for was a local group bulk-buying bullets where the delivery was to one place. For other things I just send the order.

jim

LW barrels are made of "700 series" stainless and will leave most smiths cussing when doing a chamber. Awesome steel and in no way an inferior barrel, just tougher to work with.

Brux Barrels will also do a 10% discount with only 10 barrels and would ship directly to the buyer from the factory. Planning to reship will be a nightmare you dont want to take on.

Rock Creek also has MANY twist rates

As others have said, they are not "inferior", just apparently hard on tools. With what W-R charges, I imagine the extra tool wear is covered!

Rock Creek:

Available Calibers
.224 (5 groove)
.243 (5 groove)
.264 (5 groove)
.277 (5 groove)
.284 (5 groove)
.308 (5 groove)
.338 (5 groove)
.458 (7 groove)
.510 (7 groove)

Looks like they forgot a few...

Looks like my list of guns!!

It is not listed above, but they also do .25 cal. I am having one in a #2 stainless 1-10 twist done now in that caliber. They gave me an estimated complete time of mid-Feb. I ordered it the end of December.

This one of those things where whoever chooses to do it has to just say. "I'm doing a group buy on XYZ barrels, here are the facts." and be done with it. Either enough people will join for the deal or not. We could talk it to death, proof is in the threads already going.

Mike

Peggy at Pac-Nor is a treat to deal with.

I'll take a 17 caliber if this gets off the ground.

ML

Figuring Pac-Nor offers the best and most custom options, easily able to please most folks.

If we did PacNor, I'd be down for a #4, .224 or a #7, 6mm barrel.