Best Custom Rifle Barrels in Canada

I like his barrels. My rifle shoots like this.
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Shot my best 300m group with a Smith barrel.

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Does that make them the best? I don't think so.

I think every good barrel maker can make bad barrels, and bad barrel makers can make good barrels now and then.
 
I have a Smith barrel that was chambered in 25/06 AI that shot very well. You may have seen my post here.

http://www.canadiangunnutz.com/forum/showthread.php?t=330812

There has been somewhere in the range of 300-400 rounds down it. It shot very well even on a Bubba'd rifle. I don't have any targets to show, but it would shoot tight touching cloverleafs @ 100 with 85 gr Noslers. I am debating whether to spend the money and put it on a Sako L61R action I have, or to just ditch it for a new one.

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It is almost perfectly contoured for this stock if the shank is cut off and re threaded?

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The stock in the picture in the above post is what the finished product would look like as it's the same stock.
Not sure what to do, and who to have do the chamber work? Any ideas guys?

Thanks
 
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I've had excelent luck with krieger barrels, but i think it is more a chevy, ford, dodge thing. More a preferance than anything, i think all the big names build a good product generly speaking.
 
Every barrel make out there makes very good barrels. Every barrel maker out there has made a few bad ones too. Some more than others.

The questions should be who makes the most consistent barrels out there and the fewest bad ones?

I cannot answer that without a healthy dose of bias
 
I have 3 great rifles
a .223 a 6 BR and a 6 PPC all of them shoot fantastic all of them have MacLennan barrells, I love rob's work and he's a great guy as well.

M.
 
I had one of Rob's heavy Palma contour barrels that shot like a lazer. When I restocked the rifle it was 1/2 pound over the weight limit, so I rebarreled to one of his regular Palma contours. I gave the old barrel to a buddy and he had is fitted to a Remington action and he is still shooting possibles with it. I could never get the new MacLennen to shoot as well and after wasting 2 seasons on it I scraped it. The rifle now wears a Bartlein.
 
Any of these barrels are likely able to shoot better than 99.99% of the operators behind the gun. I think your splitting hairs when it comes to deciding between a hart, krieger, shilen, maclennan, smith, etc.
Buy what makes you happy, what you can afford, and most importantly what you won't have to wait a lifetime to receive. Better to shoot one than wait for the other.
 
You will never become greater than your barrel if your gun isn't capable of putting rounds exactly where you want them every time. It is very hard to learn anything from a mediocre barrel.
 
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You will never become greater than your barrel if your gun isn't capable of putting rounds exactly where you want them every time. It is very hard to learn anything from a mediocre barrel.
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Very true.
It is important to know when a shot goes awry that it was the shooter and not the rifle.
I flip between hunting and the precision rifle section and forgot to shift gears.....All of my precision rifles wear match quality barrels.

Way too much time and energy can be spent chasing a "slightly off" factory barrel.
 
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