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Old July 12, 2013, 12:14 PM   #5
Bart B.
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Fluted barrels are no different that solid ones when it comes to them heating up. Either type not fit correctly to the receiver or made with poor metalurgy and stress relieving will move point of impact when they get hot.

If that fluted barrel is done so after the bore's rifled and it's a button rifled barrel, it may well have uneven diameters at each end of the flutes.

I think you'll be better off with a plain barrel of the same contour as a fluted one. It'll be stiffer and probably more accurate. Fluting a barrel makes it less rigid; it's stiffer before it's fluted. Removing metal by fluting takes away some of the metal that otherwise resisted its bending.
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