Thread: Supressors.

Well said Gimp. Spanners, you in particular as a moderator I would have thought, should be setting an example on the tone of this forum?

Spanners, have you dealt or communicated with any of the top USA barrel makers? You seem to have quite the wrong end of the stick. We have communicated with, purchased barrels off, and fitted Kriegers, Bartleins, Liljas, Broughtons and Pacnors. Mitch certainly is a great gunsmith, no doubt, and he will be sorely missed when he heads back to the USA to live shortly. Out of interest, have you asked his opinion on fluting???? You might be surprised at his answer! We have some straight blanks in stock, and have contoured and fluted some when required. Ian even cut an integral angled port muzzle brake into a 1.8” straight Lilja 7mm blank we had here. But we far prefer as do the premier benchrest gunsmiths and benchrest shooters in the world that the barrel manufacturer does the contouring and or fluting. They are set up to do this the most accurate way possible at the best time in the barrel manufacturing process, and it gives us a quicker turn around time. And any monkey can accurately set up, thread, chamber and crown a barrel? Really? Oh well, we must just be monkeys then!


KiwiGreg, please do not misrepresent what I said. You are trying to make black and white what is not. I never said threading or fluting will always detrimentally affect accuracy. I went to great length to explain the issues and the large variables at play here, which are real whether you accept them or not. By all means believe what you will, but we will be trying to do the best for our own rifles and those of our customers. This means using common sense and the commonly accepted best practise by the most recognised accuracy barrel makers and gunsmiths in the world. And that may well mean at times publishing the "inconvenient truth" which may well annoy some internet experts and NZ professionals set in their ways. So be it.
Greg