Originally Posted by
MistWolf
If everything else is equal, the lower cost barrel certainly is your choice because accuracy will also be equal. However, if accuracy was your primary concern, why include the chrome lined bore in the discussion? Not that chrome lined barrels offer poor accuracy, but they are generally less accurate than non-chromed barrels
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I didn't make these points to stop the discussion about nitriding. I gave you these points to give you another angle to ponder. From the initial information given in your first post, my conclusion is that the matter is being over thought. It's simple. You don't have to spend $500 plus the cost of nitriding to get an accurate barrel. I paid $325 to have a 20 inch Lothar-Walther SS barrel delivered to my door complete with bolt matched to the barrel. As bolts were going for roughly $50, that means I got a very accurate barrel for $275 and it will last for thousands of rounds.
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The fact is, with any well made modern barrel, short of abusing it with mag dumps, it's going to take a pile of ammo to wear it out