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    Your Dept. allows self assembled firearms to be carried as your duty rifle, that's a first I've ever heard that. Most have a list of approved factory rifles if you are not issued a dept. rifle. You may want to read through your dept. firearms policy before planning to carry your built rifle. They may actually see that as a liability since it wasn't purchased from an actual gun manufacturer.

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    My next barrel will be a faxon, but I'm a fan of BCM barrels. Great product and within your price range.

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    X-Caliber Barrels

    I currently have a barrel in production from http://www.x-caliber.net/ I had the opportunity to tour their facility, see production and hear how their company began as well as what they put into making sure customers get an exemplary product. That information, in addition to see the end product and the targets produced by other individuals was enough to convince me that this was my next barrel. They do make barrels for some "other companies that cannot be named due to non-disclosure agreements". So you may have seen or heard of their work and not even known it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PaLEOjd View Post
    Your Dept. allows self assembled firearms to be carried as your duty rifle, that's a first I've ever heard that. Most have a list of approved factory rifles if you are not issued a dept. rifle. You may want to read through your dept. firearms policy before planning to carry your built rifle. They may actually see that as a liability since it wasn't purchased from an actual gun manufacturer.
    My department has an awesome policy. Any DI gun (or piston, hk/pof that swat is using) you qualify with, you can carry, mine is a suppressed sbr.


    Sure it hypothetically possible that someone will assemble a junk gun, but they still have to get armored and inspected in addition to qual.


    Handgun policy is awesome too, I've been alternating between my G17 and Springfield Professional

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    Two that I can personally recommend are BCM and Faxon. I have 2 BCM stainless 1/8 barrels. One is an 18" on an SPR, the other is a 16" on my Recce. Yesterday my SPR shot a 1moa 5 shot with Federal GMM 77, and my 16" Recce did about .5 moa with the same exact box of ammo. My Recce is consistently about .25 tighter on a 5 shot group than my 18"SPR. They are the same barrel, same day, same box of ammo. I speculate it's that the 16" is stiffer, therefore gives a touch better at 100yds. The other I can recommend is the Faxon. My co worker just put one of the 16" lightweights on an uber-light build he did. Whole gun with sights is 5#!! The barrel is very, very nice for an ultralight barrel. The quality certainly seems excellent. Those are the two that I have the most recent experience with.

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    I would definitely second the Ballistic Advantage and Faxon Barrels. I've been using a Faxon 14.5 Gunner for quite a while lately, and it is awesome. Extremely lightweight and still has great performance, and Faxon doesn't skimp on the manufacturing. As someone else mentioned, pick them up from AIM Surplus, and it'll come with a pinned gas block! Can't beat them for the money.

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    I posted something like this elsewhere, but off the top of my head in no particular order:

    Aero Precision/Ballistic Advantage
    Daniel Defense
    AR15Performance
    Green Mountian
    Sionics Weapon Systems
    Faxon Firearms
    Criterion

    Are some good places to get quality barrels at realitively cheap prices.

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    Not sure how you can recommend the BA barrel, when in another thread you are asking about an SPR build, and you state in regards to BA- Heard good things about BA and like the price. That would imply you have no experience with them.

    Quote Originally Posted by EO3 View Post
    I would definitely second the Ballistic Advantage and Faxon Barrels. I've been using a Faxon 14.5 Gunner for quite a while lately, and it is awesome. Extremely lightweight and still has great performance, and Faxon doesn't skimp on the manufacturing. As someone else mentioned, pick them up from AIM Surplus, and it'll come with a pinned gas block! Can't beat them for the money.



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    I have seen several depts in Texas that allow similar or even AR's that have been modified after the fact. As long as the dept. armorer or firearms training personnel OK it.

    Quote Originally Posted by PaLEOjd View Post
    Your Dept. allows self assembled firearms to be carried as your duty rifle, that's a first I've ever heard that. Most have a list of approved factory rifles if you are not issued a dept. rifle. You may want to read through your dept. firearms policy before planning to carry your built rifle. They may actually see that as a liability since it wasn't purchased from an actual gun manufacturer.



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    I have used Faxon barrels on a half dozen of my personal builds and have found them to be of high quality and reasonsbly priced. Mine vary from an extremely light 14.5" to a Medium weight and a couple with m4 profile, no problems, real care in manufacturing and even the light weight is super accurate.

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