Chewbacca
12-11-2021, 09:45 PM
If this is for informal work and you want the ease of barrel change, then the Savage is a decent choice. But, the Ruger RPR also has an easy to change barrel as well. I do not know anything about their reliability issues. I'd want a premium barrel, Kreiger, Bartlein, etc.
A while back I was at a gun show near Asheville, NC. So was this old fella, John Kreiger. Maybe you've heard of him. Learned a lot from that conversation. Main topic was 5R barrels. He said that he would make you a 5R or 12 groove, whatever you want. Said words to the effect that lots of stuff was just hype and that a good barrel is primarily from how it is made and who made it. A totally unsolicited comment was he extremely surprised at how Savage was making production barrels that were really good.
A while back I was at a gun show near Asheville, NC. So was this old fella, John Kreiger. Maybe you've heard of him. Learned a lot from that conversation. Main topic was 5R barrels. He said that he would make you a 5R or 12 groove, whatever you want. Said words to the effect that lots of stuff was just hype and that a good barrel is primarily from how it is made and who made it. A totally unsolicited comment was he extremely surprised at how Savage was making production barrels that were really good.