Comments on: Lothar Walther’s Woodall Explains Barrel-Making Methods

By: Jerry Bair

Jerry Bair — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 11:54:54 +0000

While I have yet to shoot my LW barrel, I can tell you I was very dissapointed to find lots of tiny pits along the junction of the lands and grooves when I inspected it with a new “Hawkeye”bore scope!
These pits may not affect accuracy they will certainly make it more difficult to clean the bore and I can tell you from experience that a quality smooth hand laped barrel that is properly broken in is a dream to clean. Some clean up completely in eight to ten patches with no brushes while a rough factory barrel can be a real nightmare that takes days to clean!
If I had had the borescope for inspection when I purchased the LW barrels I would have returned them as unacceptable!

By: jhn

jhn — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 23:51:26 +0000

@ Nat : it was about the same speech, Krieger did in his video.

LW makes in europe the best barrels.
Even the Hammer forging is made a ciance
over here, look at the barrels of Sako for instance, there hammer forged. And the best there ever made.
The TRG are 1/3MOA!!

Plus the LW SS barrels are made from a harder type of ss, means longer barrel life.

Place a good shooter behind a Lothar Walter barrel, and he, or she will winn!

By: Ron Maw

Ron Maw — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 14:12:14 +0000

Lothar-Walther does indeed make a good button rifled barrel – The LW50 grade of stainless infact is very durable but presents some challenges to machine. (Walther has infact over-came these challenges as far as rifling and chambering these LW50 stainless steel barrels).
My personal belief is that Dan Lilja makes one of (if not “the”) very best button rifled barrels on the market.

By: Nat Lambeth

Nat Lambeth — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 12:03:11 +0000

Mr. Woodall should run for public office, he sounds just like a politition. Talks alot and says little.
If I had to guess I would say he is a democrat.
Nat Lambeth