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Originally Posted by Disabled1
From my readings, a CHF barrel is a more preferred barrel over a cut and reamed barrel. The Ruger barrel might be less than $275.
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Preferred by who, and why? There are many more precision barrels that are button rifled or cut rifled than hammer forged. The requirements for the mil-spec rifle still call for a button cut barrel.
There are some advantages to a CHF barrel though. If one produces enough barrels to warrant the cost of the machinery, they can turn out a large number of barrels quickly and efficiently, lowering their cost per barrel. This is why Ruger uses CHF barrels... even my American Rimfire rifle has a CHF barrel.
I think a lot of what we read has been put out by marketing departments to make us believe that their product is superior, when in fact, there has always been more than one way to skin a cat.