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zippy13 · January 30, 2010, 03:45 AM

Since Hastings tossed in the towel and has closed their doors for good, there's little chance of getting a new straight rifled barrel from them. But, that doesn't mean the idea of straight rifling is dead. No, far from it. The innovative Jess Briley has been selling straight rifled tubes in his Ultimate Ultralite tube sets ($1,750) for a some while.

I've not tried them. They may be like porting, some folks will think they work wonders while others think it's a bunch of hooey. There's a big difference between spending $35 to port your M-500's barrel to see if you like porting, and spending $1,750 to test some straight rifled tubes. This may be another situation where the results are so subtle that only top-notch shooters (and some wannabes) will notice the difference.

Any of you Triple-A NSSAers out there used the straight rifled Briley UUs?

January 30, 2010, 03:45 AM	#2
zippy13 Senior Member Join Date: August 23, 2008 Location: SoCal Posts: 6,442	Since Hastings tossed in the towel and has closed their doors for good, there's little chance of getting a new straight rifled barrel from them. But, that doesn't mean the idea of straight rifling is dead. No, far from it. The innovative Jess Briley has been selling straight rifled tubes in his Ultimate Ultralite tube sets ($1,750) for a some while. I've not tried them. They may be like porting, some folks will think they work wonders while others think it's a bunch of hooey. There's a big difference between spending $35 to port your M-500's barrel to see if you like porting, and spending $1,750 to test some straight rifled tubes. This may be another situation where the results are so subtle that only top-notch shooters (and some wannabes) will notice the difference. Any of you Triple-A NSSAers out there used the straight rifled Briley UUs?