I have been told that these barrels are not the Citadel barrels of decades ago when quality was spotty.
The builder I spoke with has had about the same experience as OneBarfly has. No issues and very nice grouping. With the complete lack of barrels in Canada its good to at least have some available.
Citadel has never had anything to do with Krieger who are in Wisconsin. Citadel is in California.
Anyone install one of these barrels yet. I just attempted to install one on two different PB receivers and gave up 20 degrees under indexed, using a 4' wrench handle with a lot of force applied at the end. No way that is going on and I don't own a lathe.
You've got that reversed,
Criterion was set up by Krieger as a "cheap-cheerful" button rifled service rifle barrel maker.
Criterion outgrew Krieger and was spun off as an independent company - now has separate ownership and no (formal) ties to Krieger.
Better under-timed than over-timed, but you will have to relieve the shoulder of the barrel to a proper under-turn value.
if you force it that much you risk creating a stress point in the chamber.
Does anyone remember the 1980s Ruger and S&W revolver barrels failing at the frame joint? They were over torqued and this created a stress point - I've also seen photos of "under-turned" M305s where the barrels did the same thing after turning to TDC without relieving the shoulder.
Last edited by Lee Enfield; 05-03-2018 at 05:53 PM.
Newbie here just curious if anyone knows where you can get the chamber reamed if needed when building a garand