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Do you think it has to do with availability? I use Bartlein because I can get them in 3 days in almost any contour and twist I need. They also are good shooting barrels and have not had a bad one yet. Proof research is for the most part available for $30 less. I've never used one though because the vendors that carry them with shipping added I can get a Bartlein.
I don't want to sound rude but you didn't read what was posted. The article clearly says none of the PROOF barrels were carbon wrapped, and he says quite a bit about that very detail.
I had saw that article and some of his follow up articles your are correct things are changing very fast in this industry. To be honest I was just replying because I need 10 post to reply to something in the for sale section. I figured this was the best thread to jump into because I was asked to look into a CFW barrel for a build and I have never worked with one. I wanted to see what everyone else though about the current selection.
Yes. It fits the Iota Kremlin stock. 36oz stock while not the lightest, I like them. The barrel per Bartlein weighs 3.8lbs at 24"
It's been several years since I saw a barrel preference listing. Obviously things have changed eh ? My bad. Is that based on use with there all steel barrels or CFW or combination ? Sorry just read the entire article. Thanks for sharing.@VLD Pilot , Then take a look at this article published almost two years ago. It shows that Proof barrels were the fastest growing in precision shooting market and their users were performing extremely well. https://precisionrifleblog.com/2019/01/05/best-rifle-barrel-2/
Here's the applicable quote from the article.
PROOF Research was the second most popular barrel brand among these top shooters, at 15.7%. That is more than double the amount of shooters they had represented the last time I published the barrel stats, hinting at a growing consumer confidence in their product. In fact, more top-10 shooters were using PROOF barrels than any other brand! They represented 50% of the top 10 shooters in the NRL, and 30% in the PRS.
When most people think of PROOF Research, they probably think of their carbon fiber barrels, but PROOF also produces traditional steel barrels – which is what 100% of these guys were running. I specifically asked all the guys running PROOF barrels if they were running a steel or carbon fiber barrel, and all of them were using steel barrels on their competition rifles, although a few of them said they run carbon fiber barrels on their hunting rifles. Daniel Bertocchini, who finished 23rd overall in the PRS, explained it pretty well: "The main reason guys are running steel over carbon is the added weight for most PRS competitions, but there are benefits to running carbon over steel especially when shedding weight is a concern." In precision rifle competitions, weight is often seen as a good thing, and I'll touch more on why later in this article.
PROOF Research actually purchased Lawrence Rifle Barrels in 2012, to bring cut-rifle barrel making in-house for better control of consistency and lead times. Even their carbon fiber barrels have a steel barrel as the liner, and while the steel liner is fairly thin they'd still be safe to fire without the carbon fiber wrap. The carbon fiber is simply there to add more rigidity without adding much weight. Below is an example showing the comparison of a traditional steel barrel and an example of a carbon fiber wrapped barrel.
There are different approaches to carbon fiber barrel wraps used by different companies. I go into the science behind that in a chapter I contributed to Bryan Litz's most recent book, Modern Advancements In Long Range Shooting Volume 2. I also put some carbon fiber barrels from PROOF Research and Christiansen Arms to the test to see how they compare to several traditional steel barrels of various contours, including a steel barrel from PROOF Research. I quantify group sizes, point of impact shift as the barrels heat up, overall barrel stiffness, and even measure how quickly the barrels heat up and cool off. It was the first large-scale study done on these kinds of barrels that I'm aware of, so if you're interested in this stuff you might check that out.
Yeah definitely not half. I would assume at least the top 50 were. Not everything obviously but the major components.
