Highest quality aftermarket Savage replacement barrels

[Lefty Trigger]

I have bought and tried many, many barrel from a lot of makers and my end goal was great accuracy with minimal cost or down down time. Nobody wants to wait 6 months to have a barrel made. I'm currently waiting on a Shilen 7mm BR barrel and its been 5 months now. I have had incredible accuracy from Shaw, and currently X-Caliber. I have shot a lot of Criterion barrels but ran into an issue with one and they are jacking me around on the replacement, done with them! If your linking is blued barrels then E.A. Brown has some really nice chrome-moly barrels that shoot pretty darn good and their bluing is amazing. The key to all this is finding a smith that will actually make you a barrel in a reasonable amount of time, in my opinion 3 weeks is a decent amount of time to make a barrel from a blank. Keeping in mind this is all low cost vs. decent accuracy not top tier barrels.

[Ted_Feasel]

I have bought and tried many, many barrel from a lot of makers and my end goal was great accuracy with minimal cost or down down time. Nobody wants to wait 6 months to have a barrel made. I'm currently waiting on a Shilen 7mm BR barrel and its been 5 months now. I have had incredible accuracy from Shaw, and currently X-Caliber. I have shot a lot of Criterion barrels but ran into an issue with one and they are jacking me around on the replacement, done with them! If your linking is blued barrels then E.A. Brown has some really nice chrome-moly barrels that shoot pretty darn good and their bluing is amazing. The key to all this is finding a smith that will actually make you a barrel in a reasonable amount of time, in my opinion 3 weeks is a decent amount of time to make a barrel from a blank. Keeping in mind this is all low cost vs. decent accuracy not top tier barrels.

Only problem i had with criterion was a ar15 6.5 grendel barrel that they had undersized the gas port. I ended up just touching it myself and it was perfect after that, accurate as heck

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[mikeinco]

define decent and accurate.
define minimal cost
( sounds like cheap and impatient).

I have bought and tried many, many barrel from a lot of makers and my end goal was great accuracy with minimal cost or down down time. Nobody wants to wait 6 months to have a barrel made. I'm currently waiting on a Shilen 7mm BR barrel and its been 5 months now. I have had incredible accuracy from Shaw, and currently X-Caliber. I have shot a lot of Criterion barrels but ran into an issue with one and they are jacking me around on the replacement, done with them! If your linking is blued barrels then E.A. Brown has some really nice chrome-moly barrels that shoot pretty darn good and their bluing is amazing. The key to all this is finding a smith that will actually make you a barrel in a reasonable amount of time, in my opinion 3 weeks is a decent amount of time to make a barrel from a blank. Keeping in mind this is all low cost vs. decent accuracy not top tier barrels.

[Lefty Trigger]

define decent and accurate.
define minimal cost
( sounds like cheap and impatient).

Impatient, you bet. No reason for it to take a whole shooting season to get a barrel made. A lot of places are stocking "ready made" barrels now and those are the one's I'm interested in, screw it on and go shoot. Accuracy, it can be there is the blank is not janked up to start with (my current problem with Criterion) I'm running a Shaw 7mm08 that shoots 10 shots at about 1.750 at 300 yards and a X-caliber 6mm Creedmoor that will shoot an inch at 300 and I have a 6mm BR the can do under 1 inch with 80gr bullets at 300yds. and the most expensive barrel is the BR barrel at $330.00 and all are pre-fits. I shoot a lot and have actually shot out new barrels in one season. Its a little bit easier to throw away worn out barrels that cost less to start with.

[mikeinco]

it is called SUPPLY AND DEMAND.
IF JUST A BLANK.....one of the top in the country, krieger has often been at 12 months lead time...BECAUSE THEY WILL NOT COMPROMIES QUALITY.
IF YOU ARE TALKING A GUNSMITH THAT CHAMBERS AND FITS BLANKS...same thing it takes time even it you think not, and they likely have customers in line willing to wait while you settle for mass produces run of the mill stuff.

Impatient, you bet. No reason for it to take a whole shooting season to get a barrel made. A lot of places are stocking "ready made" barrels now and those are the one's I'm interested in, screw it on and go shoot. Accuracy, it can be there is the blank is not janked up to start with (my current problem with Criterion) I'm running a Shaw 7mm08 that shoots 10 shots at about 1.750 at 300 yards and a X-caliber 6mm Creedmoor that will shoot an inch at 300 and I have a 6mm BR the can do under 1 inch with 80gr bullets at 300yds. and the most expensive barrel is the BR barrel at $330.00 and all are pre-fits. I shoot a lot and have actually shot out new barrels in one season. Its a little bit easier to throw away worn out barrels that cost less to start with.