Post AEoPyevSC8D91OYKNE by MikeCarbine@freespeechextremist.com
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 (DIR) Post #AEoPOrid9WSkH2UFoO by admin@detroitriotcity.com
       2021-12-27T00:12:09.038051Z
       
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       If anyone was eyeballing the two remaining in-stock Criterion 16-inch hbar-profile mid-length barrels at opticsplanet.com and was angrily wondering who was the asshole that bought the last one, it was me. :georgefloyd_cheers: At the end of 2019 I had been planning on starting a second rifle build, but then the scamdemic & lockdowns hit and then the riots and then the November Coup, and inventories basically got vaporized. Now two years later and demand seems to have subsided and supply correspondingly stabilized, I figure it’s as good a time as any to take another crack at it.Planning to do a pistol configuration this time (my other build is an 18-inch rifle-length gas) so the first order of business will be to have the barrel cut down and re-threaded. I’m just trying to decide whether to go 12.5 inch or 13.7 inch, strictly for unsuppressed use.
       
 (DIR) Post #AEoPyevSC8D91OYKNE by MikeCarbine@freespeechextremist.com
       2021-12-27T00:18:50.724680Z
       
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       @admin You can never go wrong with guns. Guns are good.
       
 (DIR) Post #AEotXJPx3Bzz7ah4sK by gat@mu.zaitcev.nu
       2021-12-27T05:50:01.711002Z
       
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       @admin I may be missing something obvious but buying a longer barrel just to cut it down seems a little strange in today's environment. I walk into a gun show that they have rows of uppers that they give away for a song. Just scavenge a barrel from one of those, would be my approach.
       
 (DIR) Post #AEowCLATeBIQKc9CJU by admin@detroitriotcity.com
       2021-12-27T06:19:50.528942Z
       
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       @gat I wanted the heavy profile and mid-length gas port. There aren’t many companies that make quality barrels in that combination. That and the fact that I’m not about build a new rifle only to put a used barrel on it.
       
 (DIR) Post #AEoxQ0HmBRRdZgdlSq by gat@mu.zaitcev.nu
       2021-12-27T06:33:31.780901Z
       
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       @admin Okay. I don't want to be one of those Internet know-it-alls, especially since you already bought the Criterion. Still, if I were doing it, I'd go to Faxxon and sign up for availability notification. I started doing that during the pandemic and it worked surprisingly well. I got the wind of it from guys buying parts kits for things like Velocity MAC 10 and other such things that are permanently out of stock.https://faxonfirearms.com/faxon-14-5-gunner-profile-ar15-barrel-5-56-nato-nitrided/
       
 (DIR) Post #AEoz6DTXdOrwbAptJY by admin@detroitriotcity.com
       2021-12-27T06:52:20.919056Z
       
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       @gat I actually did check out Faxon, who makes a 13.7 mid-legth. Even has the 4150 steel, which is a plus. I just don’t like those hybrid profile barrels that are skinny in the middle and turn thick toward the muzzle. The Criterion hbar profile is rigid and won’t flex as much even when it’s hot, and I find the weight reassuring. Noveske makes a 13.7 mid-length, but it’s over $400. That’s a little steep for my taste. The Criterion was considerably less than that, and the barrel work by Adco runs $75. So it still comes in well under the cost of a Noveske.
       
 (DIR) Post #AEp2rg2PYcxWekT7A0 by gat@mu.zaitcev.nu
       2021-12-27T07:34:33.343340Z
       
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       @admin I saw an interview with CEO of Faxon where he was not enthusiastic about Government profile barrels either. He is a big lover of his company's pencil barrels and says that Government barrels add mass for no benefit to accuracy. The so-called "gunner" profile that I linked is thicker at the chamber end and thins out toward the muzzle. Faxon do not make true hbar profile barrels because they claim that their stress-relief permits the same accuracy from their gunner or pencil profile barrels. The only thing the gunner barrel does better is heat management for full-auto ARs.Of course Faxon is not the only game in town. But they probably were the first in the industry who believed in the new metallurgy that made pencil barrels viable again. Right about time the inflection point was happening, I bought a Green Mountain fluted barrel, in part because it looked cool.