Bsf barrels: the good, the bad, and the ugly

[crich4254]

Who has a BSF barrel? Pros and cons of yours. I have one on my short action 6.8 western and it will hammer .5” or better 5 shot groups all day long with factory ammo BUT I could not get a good reload worked up for it. I tried 4 different powders and 2 different bullets and have up. I’m happy either way. Anyone got one in 22 creed?

 

[scaast]

Running an 18” on my suppressed 300 WM. Very happy with it. It does extremely well with 165 grain Federal. Shoots the heavier bullets okay, but 165 seems to be the sweet spot.

 

[Pilsner]

Had/have a couple.
My 6.5-284 Norma built on a Howa long action put its first 5 shots ever into 0.22" using ELD-Ms in handloads.
With handloads my 6.5 PRC will do 5 shots in 0.5" on the regular and 10 shot groups in the 0.7-ish range, again with ELD-Ms
My recently sold 300 PRC would do much the same as the 6.5 PRC with Hornady ELD-M's from the factory box.
Already planning my next build and it will have a BSF barrel on it.
N=3 is a small sample size but I'm batting a thousand with them so far.

Only downside has been the wait times which went longer than they said on 2 out of the 3 barrels. Their veterans' discount more than made up for the wait time though.