Couple of years ago I bought a prefitt 6.5x47L Criterion barrel from Jim, great service and the barrel looked nice. However, it never shot as well as I thought it would and/or should. I did not attempt to index the barrel, just adjusted the headspace with a piece of formed brass. Just got a McGowan 6x47L and it is showing more promise and I headspaced the same way, with no attempt to index. Has anybody else been under impressed with a Criterion barrel?

I have been reading and find folks have a problem with the Savage nut because you cannot index. There is no reason you can't index a Savage, you will just have a wildcat, you simply screw the barrel in or out to index and you have to fireform and really have a wildcat. Has anybody indexed a Savage barrel and did you see a accuracy improvement?

Bill