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Thread: Tell me about the Noveske N4 barrel

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    Quote Originally Posted by mtdawg169 View Post
    Well, it was true when I originally stated that and it had been the case since the N4 barrel was introduced. Then Noveske went and finally did what we've all been wishing they would do and finally made the 14.5 available yesterday. Interestingly enough, ToddK from Noveske has hinted that there will be more options available in the future as well. So far, 10.5 & 14.5 are available for commercial sale. I suppose they figured that it couldn't hurt since BCM and Centurion were already offering similar products.
    What slightly irritates me is--I just spoke to the folks at Noveske, say 6-8 weeks ago about offer their N4 barrels in 14.5 and 16 inch and they said it would be years down the road.

    Had I known it would only be a few more months I would have waited for them to come out. Seems like management wasn't talking to the sales dept!

    At any rate I'm happy with the CA's and hope to get my hands on them and get them running. I can say the CA's are more cost effective for nearly identical specifications (other than rifling).
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    Quote Originally Posted by wild_wild_wes View Post
    "...The Noveske also gets a plus because it has a tapered profile under the handguard, while the Centurion is a straight untapered profile..."
    What makes that a plus in your book, or what was your thinking...?
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    A tapered barrel is a more properly engineered barrel (unless we are talking about heavyweight precision barrels). The main design point of Noveske is to have the lightest yet stiffest barrel, which is done by careful contouring (this was stated by John Noveske in an interview I read). The N4 for instance took the M4 barrel as a maximum desired weight, but redistributed the steel to where it does the best to promote accuracy- thickest near the chamber, and thinner near the muzzle, as per hundreds of years of gun barrel experience. The M4 barrel, with its forwards-backwards profile, is an embarassement, in terms of design logic.
    Last edited by wild_wild_wes; 10-16-10 at 23:13.
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    Quote Originally Posted by BlueOvalFan View Post
    What slightly irritates me is--I just spoke to the folks at Noveske, say 6-8 weeks ago about offer their N4 barrels in 14.5 and 16 inch and they said it would be years down the road.

    Had I known it would only be a few more months I would have waited for them to come out. Seems like management wasn't talking to the sales dept!

    At any rate I'm happy with the CA's and hope to get my hands on them and get them running. I can say the CA's are more cost effective for nearly identical specifications (other than rifling).
    I'm not sure that the rifling is any different either. From what I understand, all chf barrels have a tapered bore. I think the only thing separating the Noveske, Centurion and BCM HF barrels is their different profiles.

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    Im in this dilemma now for my 10.5".

    Centurion or Noveske, with pinned gas blocks from the factory they are about the same ($360 Noveske vs $375 for the Centurion)

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