Reviews & Ratings for Faxon Firearms .223 Wylde Gunner Profile AR-15 Rifle Barrel — 26 reviews — Page 1

Very well packaged. Clean looking and very light for an 18” barrel. Installed as expected and performed beyond expectations. After initial break-in, groups were outstanding for a gas-gun. The barrel didn’t heat as fast as I anticipated it would with quick(ish) shots, even when suppressed. Highly recommend this barrel. Great product.

Faxon makes quality barrels, whether it's rifle or pistol. I have purchased several of both and have not been disappointed by any of them.

Looked awesome out of the box! However the small profile had me concerned, needlessly. I put a superlative adjustable gas block and sure fire brake on it. Shoot’s amazing. Four consecutive five shot groups touching at 50 yds using scorpion ammo! Recoil is nominal.

I’d give this 5 stars all day long. My shooting buddy agrees so this review counts for two separate opinions.

Heard a lot about faxon and decided to give them a try really impressed with quality and function.

Great barrels. Fit and finish are excellent. Tolerances appear spot on. I have had many faxon barrels and I love the way they perform.

If you don't much about Faxon Barrels, they are somewhat unique in the way they are manufactured. Most barrels and Mil-Spec is to use a chrome based lining down the bore of the barrel. Chrome (or chome alloy / chrome moly) provides a few things; lubricity because it's so smooth, abrasion resistance and it's pretty robust for corrosion resistance. However, it's a lining, and the lining is actually quite thin. That said, it would take tens of thousands of rounds to burn out a barrel like that.

There are some fairly good arguments from both sides about whether chrome lined barrels are more or less accurate than unlined steel barrels, however, it's a trade off - no chrome lining = corrosion and rust, chrome lining = potentially less accurate but more reliable.

What Faxon does a bit differently is manufacture the barrel and the nitride the entire barrel, inside and out. Nitriding is basically forcing nitrogen in to the steel itself (a few thousandths of an inch). Nitriding is anywhere from 1 - 4x more corrosion resistant then chrome, and you get that in the entire barrel.

It's not all rainbows and unicorns though; Nitride theoretically could fail faster than a chrome lined barrel (in specific conditions, firing full auto until the barrel is extremely hot, think like belt fed).

With that in mind, I've found that nitrided barrels are, for most purposes, going to be a little more homogenous than their chrome lined counter parts and I do think the benefits outweigh what could be c...
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Faxon match barrels are accurate for what they are, however on my sample of this barrel the gas port was off center. Enough that when I got the barrel dimpled it was unfortunately a bit canted, which doesn't make for a beautiful gun.

I purchased this in the 18 in. rifle length in July 2020 to build a match upper light enough for a handicapped shooter to use in NRA high power competition. it was the right choice. It has been used well over 1000 rounds and is highly accurate with almost any quality factory ammo, consistently grouping ten rounds under an inch and a half or less (most times much less) at 100 yds. Handloads cut group size in half, and it shoots well with 77 and eighty grain bullets. It resists heat well. Point of impact does not shift, and groups open up only slightly after twenty-five to thirty rounds. It is also easy to clean. I could not be more pleased with it!

18” Gunner Profile Barrel, Stag Arms Receiver Set. Aero Precision BCG. Palmetto State LPK. CMC 3.5lbs single stage flat bow trigger. All rounds touching at 25 yards, 1” groups at 100 yards with 55gr Federal American Eagle 5.56 M193s. Looks great. Don’t think about it, buy it. L

16" model. First one had a bad chamber (off-center), but was very easy to return to Optics Planet, who replaced it with no questions. Replacement unit is excellent, POI does not move when heats up, which is good. Overall it performs very well. Borescoping it shows a very polished bore and just good overall construction. After mounting it and zero'ing this is a 1 MOA barrel with good ammo. For a lightweight feature rich item, this is an outstanding BBL. For the price, is total deal. I would buy another in a heartbeat.