Thread: Question for Blaser Owners - to flute or not?

They are harder can't do it the way most do with horizontal gear cutters, carbide ball nose will do it.

But wouldn't bother, factory ones are done before hardening, doing a standard one your asking for a lemon accuracy wise.

Threading them is easy with modern carbide tooling, hss is thing of the past almost

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Originally Posted by BRADS

@veitnamcam is handy with I big angle grinder I believe.
I reckon he'd have a crack for half that price

and along with the artistic (one off) fluting pattern it could come in a multitude of barrel lengths if you thought it was too heavy, which of course it will be cause that's why you wanted it fluted.

In fairness and to be truthfull for that price you would still be better off having the factory do it as its one less excuse for them to trott out if its not 100% for some reason.

Be interesting to know what the weight saving would be.

Regardless, I dont think it's worth it. None of my blaser barrels are fluted and all are accurate

Fluting will save hardly any weight. How much does a new fluted barrel cost? ie buy a new fluted barrel and sell your unfluted barrel. Might work out cheaper.

No Stug I don't have a barrel...wondered if worth getting fluted over non-fluted.

Originally Posted by stug

Fluting will save hardly any weight. How much does a new fluted barrel cost? ie buy a new fluted barrel and sell your unfluted barrel. Might work out cheaper.

Its $888 on top of the $900ish??? dollars for a standard barrel.

A Blaser R93 *standard calibre barrel *is $1318-00.

Plus the extra charge for magnum calibre of $406-00.

Plus extra charge for Fluting of $888-00.

A Magnum Calibre bolt head in right hand is $343-00.

that makes me sort of sick... you can nearly buy a brand new sako finnlight for that money!

I still kinda want a blaser tho

I had to sit down.

Fluting is a waste of time for noticable weight saving on a standard profile barrel imo.

Carbon wrapping saves notable weight and has way better cooling and adds rigidity to a barrel. Much longer shot strings before heat effects accuracy etc.

Would not bother for the simple reason you will not carry it around thinking how much lighter it is with just fluting.

You could buy a standard barrel, cut it off at the receiver and have a stainless barrel fitted at that price. A couple hundy extra and you could get it wrapped.
mine handles like a dream and doesn't look to bad either.

So to clarify for a carbon wrapped barrel you buy a normal barrel, chop it, mount a new barrel and have it wrapped?

....I could have a stainless fluted barrel!

Better cooling?
Who does the wrapping?

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

Better cooling?
Who does the wrapping?

i have one on my poo poo free, sheds head like a bar@tard. Seems technique for the wrapping is somewhat controversial.
Mine came from Advanced Barrel Solutions in the US which was sold to Proof Research. Google is your friend

Would I have another, yes if it was cost effective and proven accurate

My new build is a with a Proof Research barrel...great youtube vid of how tough their CF barrels are.