“the barrel, a Shilen match grade stainless select blank”
http://www.shilen.com/barrelGrades.html
Unclenick, the link to Shilien list his barrel as lapped, had the barrel been chrome-moly Shilien would polish it for an additional charge.
“factory Lapua Silver Scenars” If I purchased Lapua it would be for all the reasons listed by reloaders, they measure it, they weigh it, they check it for capacity, if the Lapua case length was off more than .001 thousandths from the head of the case to its shoulder, Lapua would never hear the last of it, and every time a reloader started listing it as the very best cases/ammo on the market, same thing, I can beat varying case length with almost anything I purchase.
F. Guffey