Thread: ar15 suitable match grade barrels 22inch or 26inch Ssteel.

Originally Posted by steven

No and I do not intend to.

Example, Last weekend we were fault finding a 308w FTR with a <1200 round count trueflight match grade barrel on it. The best we could do was get 5s with a not good vertical spread with an occasional V dropping to 4s. What we determined was that the barrel had to be cleaned every 12 rounds, ie between each 10 round shoot (2 sighters) ready for the next to keep the five+s up. The problem becomes when you do a 15round shoot ( 17 incl 2 sighters) as by this stage the barrel is clearly shooting off and costing points but you have a time limit to do shoot them all in. On top of that I was shooting the club's spare FTR with the same make of action earlier in the day but with a good Kreiger barrel on it and getting runs of Xs and Vs, while using a fixed mag dodgy nikko scope v a new vortex on his.

This is just one more incident with a match grade trueflight barrel in a string of unhappy stories that says to me no thanks I'll put my $800+ where people say they are happy as the risk of an issue seems lower to do so.

Interesting story, but like most TF tales it is pretty pointless...

There are so many variables that could make a rifle shoot poorly - the shooter, stock, bedding, poor reloading etc, etc. I got a TF barrel from someone who called it a piece of crap (literally). Rechambered it, and went on to win several regional comps with it. Now I use a Lilja, and am getting a Shillen on my gong rifle. Each barrel shoots differently, cleans differently, and behaves differently in terms of cold clean bore shots and fouling....

So if anybody has shitty TF barrels they no longer want, send them this way