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clueless's Review of Hitman Industries AR-15 7.62x39mm Medium Rifle Barrel
I ordered 5HU-ATB-REM140-76239C16MED416RB10 which was described as being an AR15 barrel in 7.62x39 caliber, 16", in stainless with stainless finish. What I received was a barrel with a black finish covering the entire barrel and barrel extension. My guess is that what I actually received was nitride over a 4150V barrel. For this slip-up I docked this purchase 1 star. Otherwise I would have given it 5 stars.
I inspected all parts of the barrel and extension externally and internally with a bore scope. The quality looked good overall. The outside was typical of AR barrels - somewhat roughly turned but nothing to complain about. It had a good clean crown. The throat and leade were nicely machined, and the same for the barrel extension. I gave it a very light lapping out of habit, which polished it slightly. Then thoroughly cleaned, oiled the exterior and mounted it into an Aero upper with Atlas R-One handguard. I put a thread protector on the end. My long term intent is to mount a 3X prism scope, but was curious to see what kind of accuracy might be achieved. So for testing I put on a spare, low-end 3-9 scope.
Having no experience with this caliber, I looked around on-line and found that many had good experience with Belom cartridges, so bought some to try out. These have boxer primers in a brass case, and happened to be on sale. My only testing so far has been 20 rounds at 25 yards. My first shot was off the paper! So _then_ I bore sighted it. Next three shots were a .45" group, roughly 1/2" right and 1/2" high. Next 3 shot group was .35". I could see that it was grouping well, so after tweaking the windage I took more care to do the best shooting that I could. The third group was one hole, about .21" group. That is under 1 MOA. I shot two more groups with good results but was getting tired as the scope was too low and too close for comfort. My final group of 7 was .46".
Suffice it to say that this barrel and this ammo exceeded my expectations. Aside from the stainless mix-up, I have no hesitation recommending this product.
I inspected all parts of the barrel and extension externally and internally with a bore scope. The quality looked good overall. The outside was typical of AR barrels - somewhat roughly turned but nothing to complain about. It had a good clean crown. The throat and leade were nicely machined, and the same for the barrel extension. I gave it a very light lapping out of habit, which polished it slightly. Then thoroughly cleaned, oiled the exterior and mounted it into an Aero upper with Atlas R-One handguard. I put a thread protector on the end. My long term intent is to mount a 3X prism scope, but was curious to see what kind of accuracy might be achieved. So for testing I put on a spare, low-end 3-9 scope.
Having no experience with this caliber, I looked around on-line and found that many had good experience with Belom cartridges, so bought some to try out. These have boxer primers in a brass case, and happened to be on sale. My only testing so far has been 20 rounds at 25 yards. My first shot was off the paper! So _then_ I bore sighted it. Next three shots were a .45" group, roughly 1/2" right and 1/2" high. Next 3 shot group was .35". I could see that it was grouping well, so after tweaking the windage I took more care to do the best shooting that I could. The third group was one hole, about .21" group. That is under 1 MOA. I shot two more groups with good results but was getting tired as the scope was too low and too close for comfort. My final group of 7 was .46".
Suffice it to say that this barrel and this ammo exceeded my expectations. Aside from the stainless mix-up, I have no hesitation recommending this product.
Would Recommend:
Yes
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