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which rifleing is better

5mmgunguy5mmgunguy Member Posts: 3,092 ✭✭
edited November 2007 in Ask the Experts
Which rifleing is better, cut rifleing or button rifleing? Are there any benefits of one over the other?
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  • charliemeyer007charliemeyer007 Member Posts: 6,572 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Newton/Pope Cut rifleing; more surface to bite bullet.
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  • tsr1965tsr1965 Member Posts: 8,682 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    cut always seems to be better if done correctly, in not taking off to much material per cut. If to much is taken off, it tends to leave chatter, and the button is also known for chatter. The best mass production rifle barrels are forged around an arbor...don't believe it?...ask SAKO.
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  • CubsloverCubslover Member Posts: 18,601 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    All depends on who's doing it.

    Remington and Savage are known for being extremely accurate out of the box. Savages moreso, save for the high end Remmy's.

    Remington uses cut rifling, Savage uses button. Both companies know how to make each work.
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  • givettegivette Member Posts: 10,886 ✭
    edited November -1
    More stuff:

    http://forums.gunbroker.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=46540
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  • Hawk CarseHawk Carse Member Posts: 4,383 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I don't think Remington has cut rifled a barrel in 50 years, they pretty much commercialized button rifling on a large scale long ago. But I think they hammer forge now.

    It really doesn't matter much.
    Mass produced barrels are mass produced barrels whether buttoned, broached, EDMed, or hammer forged. I doubt anybody cut rifles barrels for a production line any more.

    A good aftermarket barrel is a good barrel at four or five times the cost of what the factory is using. Hart buttons, Krieger cuts; both win shooting matches.
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  • 1KYDSTR1KYDSTR Member Posts: 2,361 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Marlin uses Ballard Cut Rifleing and from the experiences I have had with various 1895's, they really figured out THAT lost art!
    The guys I know (which, granted is actually only 3 people) use slowly cut rifling (Boots Obermayer being one of them)and their tubes are absolutlely amazing!
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