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I am looking at rebarreling a rifle. My question is what is the best bbls. I currently have one with a douglass. The one on there before was a Shilen. I know Hart, kreiger, etc. I hsve been out of shooting for a while, so I don't know if quality control has gone down with any. Any to stay away from etc.
As a side note, the Shilen customer service can't be beat. In 1989 I had a rifle built. About 3-4 years later, and not that many rounds later the groups would open up. It got worse and worse. After on and off tweakng the scope etc the bbl was the only thing left. I replaced it with a douglas and great groups. Later some one mentiond I should call shilen and tell them because they had gotten a bad batch of bbls about that time and no one knew why they went bad. This was 10 years later. I e-mailed Shilen outlining what happened and even told them it was 10 years previous. Their response was send it back for replacement. I did and another was sent to me immedatly.
As a side note, the Shilen customer service can't be beat. In 1989 I had a rifle built. About 3-4 years later, and not that many rounds later the groups would open up. It got worse and worse. After on and off tweakng the scope etc the bbl was the only thing left. I replaced it with a douglas and great groups. Later some one mentiond I should call shilen and tell them because they had gotten a bad batch of bbls about that time and no one knew why they went bad. This was 10 years later. I e-mailed Shilen outlining what happened and even told them it was 10 years previous. Their response was send it back for replacement. I did and another was sent to me immedatly.