The 22 creedmoor thread

[TradLife406]

I did this for my dad. With shipping and everything I think we paid around $375 or so. This barrel shoots great with 80gr bullets or less, but doesn’t like 85/88’s. We haven’t tried the new 88TMK out of it. No regrets but with some of the barrel deals out there it’s hard not to just buy new.

Yeah for that much might as well buy a PB.

 

[rugerhoyt]

Yeah for that much might as well buy a PB.

I bought two PBB. 18" 1:8 twist. One for a dedicated night rig and the other a day rig. They both shoot factory precision match, with the 80 eldm, right at 1.5" group on a 10 shot at 100yds. Going 3150 fps. I got them to .75" on 10 shot group with 73 eldm doing 3350. factory 80s were loaded at .050 off the lands, these rigs like it .015 to .020 off. Was doing some playing last night and have some 69 eldvts ready to go, should hit north of 3450 so we will see. Hoping to get into town and grab some 62 eldvts and see if we can get them closer to 3600. Barrels are cheap, let them scream!

 

[Judd]

For the lathe jockey doing the work...it's more times than not actually more work because he's got to get things squared to where they were at the factory and then see how straight that is to the bore. A lot of guys won't do them.

You're better off to buy a new barrel from a known manufacturer and have it chambered. My opinion...