Mcgowen Barrel Reviews

My history with mcgowen is a sample of one barrel. It’s a 7 twist 25-06 that was installed by a reputable smith in my area. I bought it because the price was right and now I can see why the price was right. I am not a barrel snob having barrels from most of the popular barrel makers (Shilen, Douglas, benchmark, Krieger, Lilja, Wilson, etc) this is by far the pickiest oddest barrel I have ever used I have fired close to 200 rounds through the rifle even trying a box of factory loads and have only had one with any kind of promise. With that being said I will probably end up changing it out to something else since I am tired of chasing it at this point. I don’t believe I have ever had a factory rifle that was this hard to tune.
 
Maybe I got lucky but I hope the 300 PRC barrel I have on order shoots half as good as this 7 PRC barrel from them. It’s been the best shooting barrel I’ve ever had, not picky whatsoever. This is 10 shots under 1/2” inch. I will admit I was shooting pretty dang good that day and everything felt perfect but it lays down awesome groups every time it’s out.

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