Bill wrote:Bout 12 years ago my cousin asked me to help with load development and sighting in a 9.3x62 FN that had been rebarreled with a Lothar barrel.
Now the gunsmith who did the work knows his s**t and I have owned 2 of his guns since and they are accurate as anything sold new from a shop.
Profile was a lightish sportier but not crazy mountain rifle thin, anyway barrel was s**t, 2 to 3inches at 50m, an absolute dog, the barrel shouldn't have left the factory, it had a bores cope stuck down it and and it passed every inspection.
Gun was sold cheaply with a disclaimer that it was average in accuracy
Turned me off Lothar barrels completely.
Bill wrote:Bout 12 years ago my cousin asked me to help with load development and sighting in a 9.3x62 FN that had been rebarreled with a Lothar barrel.
Now the gunsmith who did the work knows his s**t and I have owned 2 of his guns since and they are accurate as anything sold new from a shop.
Profile was a lightish sportier but not crazy mountain rifle thin, anyway barrel was s**t, 2 to 3inches at 50m, an absolute dog, the barrel shouldn't have left the factory, it had a bores cope stuck down it and and it passed every inspection.
Gun was sold cheaply with a disclaimer that it was average in accuracy
Turned me off Lothar barrels completely.
Bill wrote:thats my right mickb, I dont drink VB either lol
Bill wrote:thats my right mickb, I dont drink VB either lol
too many quality local barrel makers out there and my experience with local Barrel makers has been positive and i have no trouble getting rebarreling work done locally and quickly.
3 of the 4 rifle I bought this year were rifles with factory barrels and all shoot great. Hard to justify the cost of rebarreling these days when a new rifle costs about the same or less
SCJ429 wrote:I hear good things about IBI barrels being sold by a Brisbane gunshop with a big online presence. For $390 you get your nice new barrel and another $300 for chambering and threading your rifle will shoot like never before..