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Rifles, Reloading, Optics, Equipment
Rifles, Bullets, Barrels & Ballistics
Cryonic treatment of rifle barrels.
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<blockquote data-quote="Buck Fever" data-source="post: 1873549" data-attributes="member: 113501"><p>I think it's better to say it does something.</p><p></p><p>The Savage barrel example above is a good one. A factory button rifled barrel that wanders is probably a barrel with residual stress, cryogenic treatment could reduce the residual stress.</p><p></p><p>If you start with a barrel that has low residual stress, cryogenics will not be able to improve it.</p><p></p><p>That Savage example sounds like it had pretty average barrel life so anything it did for hardness and ductility seems not to change barrel life.</p><p></p><p>My take is if you use the money you would spend on cryogenic treatment on a higher quality barrel up front, you will probably do better. The more you spend up front, probably the less cryogenics will help up to the point that you buy a Krieger and cryogenic treatment becomes 100% redundant.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Buck Fever, post: 1873549, member: 113501"] I think it's better to say it does something. The Savage barrel example above is a good one. A factory button rifled barrel that wanders is probably a barrel with residual stress, cryogenic treatment could reduce the residual stress. If you start with a barrel that has low residual stress, cryogenics will not be able to improve it. That Savage example sounds like it had pretty average barrel life so anything it did for hardness and ductility seems not to change barrel life. My take is if you use the money you would spend on cryogenic treatment on a higher quality barrel up front, you will probably do better. The more you spend up front, probably the less cryogenics will help up to the point that you buy a Krieger and cryogenic treatment becomes 100% redundant. [/QUOTE]
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