Opinions on per-fit barrels

[dennadam]

Need input. per-fit barrels or have a smith rebarrel the gun?
And opinions on barrel manufacturers? Quality, accuracy

 

[natdscott]

You're gonna need to give a lot more information before any good answer can come from this.

For starters: What are you trying to rebarrel?

 

[jcj54]

Pre threaded, contoured barrels for bolt action rifles occasionally come short chambered, but usually are not. The threads almost always mate well but occasionally need touched up in a lathe by single point thread cutting. Clambering needs to be done on a properly equipped lathe for best accuracy.
Most gunsmith prefer a pre contoured barrel given how time consuming contouring a barrel is.
Compared to the number of different actions and thread patterns relatively few precontoured barrels are threaded for actions.
Best answer I can give given the little detail in the question.

 

[dennadam]

You're gonna need to give a lot more information before any good answer can come from this.

For starters: What are you trying to rebarrel?

howa1500 22-250

 

[55fairlane]

Me personally, pre fit. Barrel comes contoured, crowned, threaded, blued and sort chambered.....it's a lot of bang for the buck......

 

[dennadam]

Me personally, pre fit. Barrel comes contoured, crowned, threaded, blued and sort chambered.....it's a lot of bang for the buck......

I was checking out Criterion Barrels . Criterion has per fit barrels for the howa 1500 but need a barrel nut, my gun doesn't have a nut.
Im thinking the stock would have to be altered for the nut. anything else? would the barrel be a drop in other then the nut work?

 

[55fairlane]

I have had great luck with Douglas barrel....., most suppliers offer the "barrel nut" option, but can be had without nut as well.
The barrel nut is a cheap & easy way for the factory to headspace a rifle