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What makes a barrel match grade....?

The quality of its manufacture and treatment e.g. lapping etc? Other than that, I dunno.

Match grade, in any sense, translates into better process control in order to meet specifications. Match grade bullets, for example, should be very repeatable on mass and physical dimensions. Match grade barrels, therefore, should be manufactured such that they are very consistent. This can be in the process of creating rifling, the quality of the raw material for the barrel etc. Cheap barrels can have tooling marks left behind whereas match grade barrels would be hand lapped to ensure an even bearing surface. The consistency of crowning is also critical for accuracy.

I thought it was that if you dragged the crown across the ground, they caught on fire...

I wondered if it was a thing smiths do by using some sort of device that you push through the bore with different size attachments to check the measurement of the bore which determines the length the barrel can be made too which then makes it match grade.

Price, oomanses, price. The match grade barrels we see advertised always have a higher price. Disregard accuracy, consistency and life, buy on price, the higher the better...

....a barrel maker that has a two tier quality control process. Instead just buy from a barrel maker that does everything to the highest standard:

http://www.kriegerbarrels.com

Does Krieger Barrels have different grades of barrels; i.e. Standard vs. Match?

No. All of our barrels are made the same way and to the same dimensional tolerances. We do not manufacture different grades of barrels. Every quality improvement we make on one product line or caliber is shared with every other barrel type we make. In the same way, we do not offer different grades of steel, all of our steel is the best we can acquire, being double heat treated and cryogenically treated before we begin working on it.

Due to our manufacturing process -- single-point cut-rifling-- we do not have the dimensional change issues that other barrel makers may have. Because of the uniformity of the twist and the consistency of the bore and groove dimensions, our barrels do not need to be graded differently.

Bottom Line: Everything we make is top quality or it doesn't get "Krieger" stamped on it.

Grizzly wrote:.

Bottom Line: Everything we make is top quality or it doesn't get "Krieger" stamped on it.

I would go along with that.

John Knight, who retired a couple of years back but was possibly the best barrel fitter in the business, only stocked Krieger barrels. Since he did David Calvert's rifles, and David is the current Queen's Champion and Commonwealth Games record holder, he must have been doing something right.

Match grade seems to be about absalute perfection not just one or two definative things in the making processes.I've not had a Krieger yet but I've got a bartlein.