20 inch Pencil FSB Barrels

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Been looking everywhere for 20" Pencil FSB Barrels in .223/5.56. I'm not sure if I'm searching for them incorrectly, but I absolutely cannot find them in CAN/USA. Are they hard to find? Where should I try my luck? Any alternatives?
 
They aren’t popular enough to be a regular production item. Brownell’s used to make them. They still might but are out of stock.

Likely easiest to source the barrel and have the FSB installed by a gunsmith.
 
Millennium said:
Thanks. Got any recommendations for barrels from Canadian producers? I think I can source the sight block fairly easily from what I've heard. Anything else I'd need?
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Canadian Manufacturers? None of them make a pencil barrel with .625” FSB journal that I know of. Tried one “manufacturer” and he said he couldn’t do it. Green Mountain makes them in 1/12 twist, good for 55grn bullets. I think Wolverine deals with them.

Just need two taper pins to secure the FSB to the barrel. Use a gunsmith that’s done it before. TacOrd comes to mind.
 
Millennium said:
Been looking everywhere for 20" Pencil FSB Barrels in .223/5.56. I'm not sure if I'm searching for them incorrectly, but I absolutely cannot find them in CAN/USA. Are they hard to find? Where should I try my luck? Any alternatives?
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Canada Ammo used to sell Norinco barrels. Cheap, but in my case at least reasonably accurate (better than 1.5" with handloads). Try the EE.

Bear in mind, that FSB install is one of those questions that gets asked regularly that does not have quick, cheap or easy answers. Better to find a barrel with FBS installed than either a bare barrel or one that has previously had an FSB on it.
 
Millennium said:
Are they hard to find?
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Yes, they are hard to find.

This barrel profile was standard in AR15s from 1963-1982. That was a long time ago, and the AR15 was not a very popular rifle in Canada during that time.

The only rifles that came into Canada in numbers that had that barrel were the Colt SP1 and the Norinco 311. Also not a lot of M16(A1) surplus parts ever made it here once those guns started to be replaced in service.
 
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