Brux vs ace barrels

WapitiBob said:

I bought an Ace on Saturday. I've never gotten the impression some of the bigger, old time barrel makers have really drilled down the how and why of what's going on with bullets and barrels like the Ace guy did on the shoot2hunt podcast. Could be wrong, time will tell.

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I listened to that podcast as well. They guy definitely nerds out on stuff.

I have 2 ACE barrels, they hammer! Buddy just got an ACE barrel back from the smith and his first 10 shots were within 0.5 moa and was hitting steel out past 1K with factory ammo.

That is one of the biggest reasons I have started using Pac Nor . They will make an exact copy of the old barrel which saves a ton of stock work.

Flintlock shooter said:

You won't get that from Ace Barrels....I think they are 8-10 weeks out right now.

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Anyone have experience validating this?

I ordered an "In-stock" blank from Unknown on 11/16 that was supposed to ship before xmas. I interpreted "in-stock" as in they had it on order to be received soon. Hasn't shipped yet.

I have 9 Brux and all have been excellent.

There were 4 Ace barrels in stock when I purchased, stock now shows 3. If it doesn't ship by wed I'm calling.

Ace ordered Saturday from Unknown, delivered today. Bore looks good in the scope.

Nice! Just got an update on the delayed blank I have on order today.

Background: I had seen somewhere that ACE tends to use tighter bore dimensions I.E. 0.218" 22s and 0.236" 6mms in some of their blanks so I asked unknown what bore diameter their "in-stock" blanks had since it wasn't specified. They said to tell them what spec i wanted and they'd make sure it matches. So I specified that I wanted a .219 bore 22 blank. Today they sent me an update that ACE lost their 0.219 bore tooling in shipping and will start making 0.219 blanks next week. Would have been cool to know that prior to 11 weeks into my "in-stock" order.