Minneshooter from United States, MN Public Profile

The good: this barrel has a lot of the features I was looking for in a barrel that other brands simply don't have. It's black QPQ over stainless, fluted, 18", reasonably lightweight, was in stock, and as a (probably meaningless) bonus, had 5R rifling. Great. Less bullet distortion and all that jazz. My goal was to build a light-ish weight, match grade (1 MOA or better), MK12/SPR style rifle and I figured 5R would only help.

I actually had another brand's similar barrel on back order but after six months, OpPlan cancelled the order due to the backorder being extended again. Seems more barrels hadn't made it down the mountain in Washington as expected if you catch my drift. I wanted the Rainier Ultramatch barrel in case you didn't. So, rather than be patient, I took a chance on this barrel and all the glowing reviews that came with it. To Faxon's credit, they have them stocked and it shipped promptly.

The bad: This barrel doesn't group particularly well, and is certainly not "match" grade. I'm calling it a 1.25-1.5 MOA barrel with the right ammo, best case. That may be good enough for most people but, remember, I wanted a match grade gun. I consider "match" to mean at least 1 MOA, and I consider a 1 MOA gun one that I can shoot 1 MOA or better nearly every time I shoot a group from the bench. This does not mean I shoot 500 rounds and post a picture of that one clover leaf group and pretend that's indicative of its accuracy. Nearly any gun will shoot a sub MOA group if you sho