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Post by Niceguy » Fri Jul 27, 2012 9:49 am

I'm looking to order a barrel today and in a unfinished, chrome lined AK47 barrel I'm finding ESS, High Standard and not much else. Green Mountain in a finished barrel. Are all of these good choices or should I stay away from any of these? I want an unfinished one but if the ESS and High Standard are POS I'll just get the Green Mountain and have it stripped when I get the gun coated. Thanks for all the help again...Johnny

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Re: barrel options and opinions

Post by guncrank1 » Fri Jul 27, 2012 11:50 am

You want a finished barrel
A unfinished needs chamfering and machine work

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Post by SNL » Fri Jul 27, 2012 11:56 am

Buy my milled ak and sell the parts off you dont need

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Post by guncrank1 » Fri Jul 27, 2012 11:58 am

SNL wrote:Buy my milled ak and sell the parts off you dont need


Duh

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Post by guncrank1 » Fri Jul 27, 2012 11:59 am

niceguyr6 wrote:I'm looking to order a barrel today and in a unfinished, chrome lined AK47 barrel I'm finding ESS, High Standard and not much else. Green Mountain in a finished barrel. Are all of these good choices or should I stay away from any of these? I want an unfinished one but if the ESS and High Standard are POS I'll just get the Green Mountain and have it stripped when I get the gun coated. Thanks for all the help again...Johnny
As for barrel manufactor I doubt that is a problem
Pick the one you can get and afford.

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Post by Niceguy » Fri Jul 27, 2012 12:21 pm

SNL wrote:Buy my milled ak and sell the parts off you dont need
I'll trade you my stuff and the cost of a barrel...haha :llama:

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Re: barrel options and opinions

Post by SNL » Fri Jul 27, 2012 12:25 pm

I buy em not build em, lol

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Post by Niceguy » Fri Jul 27, 2012 12:40 pm

SNL wrote:I buy em not build em, lol
This will be my first and last...haha Should be a pretty sweet AK when I'm done though!

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Post by Jhirbirt » Fri Jan 09, 2015 1:33 am

Make sure your aftermarket barrel has the "Bentz" match chamber. It will allow better feeding with ammo that is not expensive match grade. I have one on my 10-22 and get 5 shot 1/2" groups at 50 yards with Winchester T-22 ammo and Eley. It feeds Federal value pack and other economy 22 ammo as slick as any match ammo. Will get 3/4" groups at 50 yards with the cheap ammo.

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Post by SNL » Fri Jan 09, 2015 6:48 am

Riiiidin

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Post by guncrank1 » Fri Jan 09, 2015 7:44 am

Jhirbirt wrote:Make sure your aftermarket barrel has the "Bentz" match chamber. It will allow better feeding with ammo that is not expensive match grade. I have one on my 10-22 and get 5 shot 1/2" groups at 50 yards with Winchester T-22 ammo and Eley. It feeds Federal value pack and other economy 22 ammo as slick as any match ammo. Will get 3/4" groups at 50 yards with the cheap ammo.
Welcome to forum

A "Bentz" chamber is only in .22LR, nothing else

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Post by adayton » Fri Jan 09, 2015 10:27 am

Niceguy wrote:I'm looking to order a barrel today and in a unfinished, chrome lined AK47 barrel I'm finding ESS, High Standard and not much else. Green Mountain in a finished barrel. Are all of these good choices or should I stay away from any of these? I want an unfinished one but if the ESS and High Standard are POS I'll just get the Green Mountain and have it stripped when I get the gun coated. Thanks for all the help again...Johnny
Johnny,
I don't have experience with the barrels you have mentioned, but I am in the process of getting hooked up with ESS on the recommendation of a friend in the business ... He maintains they are a good lower cost AR Barrel, but I don't know that he has had experience with their AK barrels ... He does speak highly of their AR barrels and I would think that if one was good the other should not be that bad ... :-) I am told that Anderson uses some ESS barrels as well and I have not had a bad experience with theirs to date ...
My $0.02 worth ...
thanx,
Allan

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Re: barrel options and opinions

Post by Niceguy » Fri Jan 09, 2015 10:48 am

This was 7/27/12...haha

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Re: barrel options and opinions

Post by guncrank1 » Fri Jan 09, 2015 10:56 am

If your AK barrel does not have a Bentz chamber, it is FUBAR , no matter who makes it or not.

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