Carbon-Wrapped Savage Pre-Fit Barrels Now Available
Here’s a new barrel option for Savage shooters. Proof Research, a leader in composite barrel production, now offers “Pre-Fit” barrels for Savages. These barrels come chambered and threaded for Savage actions. Pre-Fits are easy to install — just spin them on, set the headspace with gauges, and tension the barrel nut. (Proof Research does recommend enlisting a gunsmith to help with the process.)
With a finished weight under three pounds, these new Pre-Fit barrels are much lighter than conventional all-steel barrels. Proof Research claims that they are “less than half the weight of comparably-sized steel barrels.” But you will pay dearly for that weight savings. As sold by Stocky’s Stocks, these Proof Research Pre-Fits cost $846.99, more than twice what all-steel Pre-Fit barrels from Criterion or Pac-Nor cost. Criterion Barrels currently charges $370.00 for a 26″ Savage or Rem/Age Pre-Fit.
Proof Research claims that its carbon-wrapped barrels shed heat faster than an all-steel barrel. Jason Lincoln, Proof Research’s VP of Engineering, claims that his company’s composite barrels can cool 50% faster than steel barrels, offering reduced point-of-impact shift during extended strings of fire. Is this marketing hype? We have yet to see a definitive test that validates the claims of enhanced cooling…
Proof Research Savage Pre-Fit Options Available
Initially the Pre-Fit barrels will be offered in a “Sendero” profile, very similar to an M24 contour. Available barrel lengths (up to 28″) vary by caliber/chambering (in some cases 24″ is all you can get). The following chamberings and twist rates are currently offered by Stocky’s Stocks:
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.223 Rem, 1:8″ Twist |
280 Ackley, 1:9″ Twist |
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No one seems to ever ask about thermal capacity and dissipation of carbon fiber wrapped barrels. Heat transfer through carbon fiber is very directional and at best about half the conduction rate of aluminum. How has proof or other carbon wrapped barrel mfg’s tackled this problem.
The only logical reason to use one of Proof’s barrels is in building an ultralight hunting gun.
Paired with a titanium action and a carbon fiber Manners stock you can build a rifle you can carry all day/night.
It’s a niche, and at over $800 per barrel their market narrows even more, but as far as I know they are the only ones* making them.
But kudos for them doing something different – it’s how we progress.
*I;m sure I’ll be told they weren’t the first or the only…..
You are right, Christensen arms make some as well as hardy engineering from New Zealand . Not mentioning Remington who sold a few varmint rifles with such barrels in the 90’s.
not enogh info on this product. 850 is the SALE price, yikes. Is the liner Stainless? Accuracy guarantee? Custom profiles and lengths to come?
Christensen last i talked to only used steel liners
I’m not convinced until I see a thermal image of 2 barrels at the same time. Having a the inner conductor wearing an outer insulator isn’t going to magically dissipate heat. Without the barrel acting as a heat sink, it will likely back up into the next coolest body, the receiver. I get that it’s a weight saver, but let’s not that it makes your barrel cooler – because the chamber is probably going to be glowing for a long time after a fast couple of shots.