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Difference Between Button/Cut Rifling?
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<blockquote data-quote="jmden" data-source="post: 349305" data-attributes="member: 1742"><div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><strong>From Krieger's website:</strong></span></div> <div style="text-align: left"></div> <div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><strong>"Q: Is there any advantage to a single-point cut-rifled barrel Vs other manufacturing methods? </strong></span></div> <div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">A:We feel there are several: </span></div> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Most stress-free way to rifle a barrel. </span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Bore and groove dimensions very uniform throughout an entire "run". </span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">On average the barrel lasts longer than a button rifled barrel. </span></li> </ul><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">A: This is not conjecture on our part. This is information reported to us by military armorers and also by very long-time competition shooters who have used a considerable number of both button-rifled and cut-rifled barrels." </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">I recently ordered a Rock Creek single-point cut rifled barrel--in part based on the above information that, until this thread, I thought was fairly universally accepted. I've been lurking on this site for a few years now and before making my barrel choice thought that the bulk of what I'd heard regarding single point cut rifled barrels was that they tended to last longer (specifically the throat area) than button rifled barrels in general. Just curious where this 'new to me' info is coming from.</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jmden, post: 349305, member: 1742"] [LEFT][FONT=Verdana][B]From Krieger's website:[/B][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][B]"Q: Is there any advantage to a single-point cut-rifled barrel Vs other manufacturing methods? [/B][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]A:We feel there are several: [/FONT][/LEFT] [LIST] [*][FONT=Verdana]Most stress-free way to rifle a barrel. [/FONT] [*][FONT=Verdana]Bore and groove dimensions very uniform throughout an entire "run". [/FONT] [*][FONT=Verdana]On average the barrel lasts longer than a button rifled barrel. [/FONT] [/LIST][FONT=Verdana]A: This is not conjecture on our part. This is information reported to us by military armorers and also by very long-time competition shooters who have used a considerable number of both button-rifled and cut-rifled barrels." [/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]I recently ordered a Rock Creek single-point cut rifled barrel--in part based on the above information that, until this thread, I thought was fairly universally accepted. I've been lurking on this site for a few years now and before making my barrel choice thought that the bulk of what I'd heard regarding single point cut rifled barrels was that they tended to last longer (specifically the throat area) than button rifled barrels in general. Just curious where this 'new to me' info is coming from.[/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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