Anyone have an opinion on their barrels? I am thinking of building an upper for my AR- Grendel in 223 or maybe a whole rifle. Looking at a somewhat low budget build and Midway has them in 16" HBAR, fluted, 1:8", chromoly with a Wylde chamber for $120. I know I could buy a better barrel but @ at least double the price. Seems like a shoe-in for a budget build.
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I had a stoner trigger that was flat dangerous. I ordered 4 triggers for builds and only 1 was safe. They would fire when moving from safe to fire.
I tried other triggers on the build lowers......fine. I tried the stoner triggers on lowers that were working fine......issues.
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I never owned a Stoner barrel, but have read a bunch of reviews. The reviews I have read, are mostly very good. The only bad reviews I can remember reading were on the 50 Beowulf bolts, that come with the Beowulf barrels. I read multiple comments on the Beowulf bolts breaking. As for the barrels them selves, I did not read any bad reviews. I read a bunch of reviews on the 6.5 Grendel barrels and the 50 Beowulf barrels. I decided to go with a 458 SOCOM instead of the Beowulf. I am still looking at 6.5 Grendel barrels, of the barrels I am looking at, one is the Stoner brand barrel, then a Satern and one other brand of barrel, that I don't remember the name of the company.Comment
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I had on on a 300 blackout build. It shot good and I didn’t have any trouble with function.Comment
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Originally posted by RifleBowPistol View Post
If you are considering a Satern I’d get that in a cut rifled version over a Stoner barrel.
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My main considerations are 24" non fluted, with 5R rifling. The Brownell's that are made by Satern, meet all of those requirements. I don't remember if the Stoner barrels have 5R rifling. I screwed up a while back. I found a guy selling some no name brand barrels, he had some 6.5 Grendel barrels, they were stainless, 24" 6.5 LBC and they had 5R rifling. He only wanted something like $130 or $135 for a barrel. For that price, with those specs I would have tried one. But I have not been able to find the guy, until the last gun show, I am pretty sure I found the same guy, but he only had 18" 6.5 Grendel barrels, pretty sure made by the same company, they were also a 6.5 LBC and also had R rifling. I told him, if he got any more 24" barrels in, I would like to get one and try it. I am going to check with him next month.Originally posted by Mike D View Post
There is another guy, who started a 6.5 Grendel group, he makes barrels and sells other parts. He quoted me a pretty good price on a 24" barrel and bolt. I may try his barrels. I would rather get a matching barrel and bolt, that the head spacing has already been set properly.
The Stoner barrels were just something I found a looked at, but they don't list 5R rifling and they are fluted barrels, which I don't want. I don't normally mind paying the price for the Satern barrel and bolt, really $325 is not bad.Comment
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You will be happier with the Satern in the long run based on what I have seen.
When you put cheap in you get cheap out. That’s just counter productive in my opinion.
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The Brownell ones are the Liberty (by Satern) button rifled. To get the cut rifled you have to order from Satern. I would only go with the cut rifled, and they are 5r as well.Originally posted by RifleBowPistol View Post
All Grendel barrels are headspaced with a bolt. If they are not they do not know what they are doing, and I would not buy them.
I stay away from fluting. If you are doing heavy shooting volume it will aide in cooling. If you are going with a 24"bbl you are not interested in fluting for weight savings. The extra mass really helps settle the rifle down though.
I had a 24" and now shoot only 18-20" The 24's are faster, but man are they long in a blind......especially if you put a suppressor on them.Comment
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