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Any good? I've thinking about sending an action to them and having them lap the lugs, square the action and rebarrel it. ______________________ | ||
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At one, THE barrel to buy! I don't know by comparison, where they are today but, I'm sure they are still one of the favorites of the benchrest crowd. I wouldn't have any qualms about using one as well as Lilja, Krieger, Obermyer and a host of others. As far as I know, they are still button rifled and lapped. "I ask, sir, what is the Militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effective way to enslave them" - George Mason, co-author of the Second Amendment during the Virginia convention to ratify the Constitution | |||
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Hart is an excellant barrel, I would have it installed and trued by one of the smiths listed on www.benchrest.com. Email me if you would like a recomendation, I am familiar with most of them. I shot a bear in Maine that dressed at396 and when it was mounted it looked like a black lab. Bob | |||
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I can strongly recomend the Hart rifle barrels, and their work. They have done 5 rifles for me and they are among the most accurate rifles I have ever seen or shot. Calibers are 6 PPC, 6 Rem, .257 AI, 6.5/284, .308 Win w .340 neck. I also have a 6/284 with one of their barrels which was smithed by someone else. It's been a few years, but my .308 was on the cover of their catalog.  Member NRA, SCI- Life #358 28+ years now! DRSS, double owner-shooter since 1983, O/U .30-06 Browning Continental set. | |||
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My most accurate rifle sports a Hart - a .222 Rem built on a Nesika J action. The barrel cleans up really well. Sorry, can't comment on the quality of Hart's gunsmithing work. As suggested above, another option would be to approach one of the gunsmiths catering to the BR crowd. - mike ********************* The rifle is a noble weapon... It entices its bearer into primeval forests, into mountains and deserts untenanted by man. - Horace Kephart | |||
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Hart still makes good barrels. The have been displaced as the top match winning barrel by Shilen and Krieger. I currently install more Kriegers than any other brand. I cannot comment on their gunsmithing services as I have no idea who's doing the work these days. As much as I like Shilen barrels, I wouldn't recommend their smithing services. I've seen several rifles they chambered with problems recently. Aim Small, Shoot Small | |||
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Most accurate rifle i owned was a hart bbl Mike Never under estimate the internet community's ability to reply to your post with their personal rant about their tangentially related, single occurrence issue.  What I have learned on AR, since 2001: 1. The proper answer to: Where is the best place in town to get a steak dinner? is…You should go to Mel's Diner and get the fried chicken. 2. Big game animals can tell the difference between .015 of an inch in diameter, 15 grains of bullet weight, and 150 fps. 3. There is a difference in the performance of two identical projectiles launched at the same velocity if they came from different cartridges. 4. While a double rifle is the perfect DGR, every 375HH bolt gun needs to be modified to carry at least 5 down. 5. While a floor plate and detachable box magazine both use a mechanical latch, only the floor plate latch is reliable. Disregard the fact that every modern military rifle uses a detachable box magazine. 6. The Remington 700 is unreliable regardless of the fact it is the basis of the USMC M40 sniper rifle for 40+ years with no changes to the receiver or extractor and is the choice of more military and law enforcement sniper units than any other rifle. 7. PF actions are not suitable for a DGR and it is irrelevant that the M1, M14, M16, & AK47 which were designed for hunting men that can shoot back are all PF actions. 8. 95 deg F in Africa is different than 95 deg F in TX or CA and that is why you must worry about ammunition temperature in Africa (even though most safaris take place in winter) but not in TX or in CA. 9. The size of a ding in a gun's finish doesn't matter, what matters is whether it’s a safe ding or not. 10. 1 in a row is a trend, 2 in a row is statistically significant, and 3 in a row is an irrefutable fact. 11. Never buy a WSM or RCM cartridge for a safari rifle or your go to rifle in the USA because if they lose your ammo you can't find replacement ammo but don't worry 280 Rem, 338-06, 35 Whelen, and all Weatherby cartridges abound in Africa and back country stores. 12. A well hit animal can run 75 yds. in the open and suddenly drop with no initial blood trail, but the one I shot from 200 yds. away that ran 10 yds. and disappeared into a thicket and was not found was lost because the bullet penciled thru. I am 100% certain of this even though I have no physical evidence. 13. A 300 Win Mag is a 500 yard elk cartridge but a 308 Win is not a 300 yard elk cartridge even though the same bullet is travelling at the same velocity at those respective distances. | |||
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Gentlemen, We have used barrels by Hart, Shilen, Douglas, Krieger, Lilja and others who supply the bench rest market. Without exception, all barrels we have used from the above manufactures have shot extremely well. And one would be very hard pressed to make a decision that one is better than the other. Some of those mentioned above do not supply some of the larger calibers. But those who do - like Dan Lilja - thier barrels shoot so well that we never have any problems developing loads for them that shoot one ragged hole at 100 yards. Here is an eaxmple of two targets we have shot with two rifles we have built. The first one has a Shilen barrel, and the second has a Lilja barrel.   | |||
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