I need to see more data.

It's a gain twist with a (trust me bro) "special" rifling profile. The barrel life claims are interesting, but I was expecting a lot more for "THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING". I guess that's how click bait / marketing works...
 
great marketing sells a lot of stuff we dont need. just look at all the archery ads.

broadheads that penetrate 1/2 inch boards, 55 gallon drums, sheets of plywood. pretty good if you hunt in a lumber mill or junkyard.

heck, they even claimed to have still steamin buck semen in a bottle and people bought that.

get a gun, find the right ammo it likes and kill some critters
 
I'm with the original assessment. Need to see more (a lot more) data (independent data).

But people are going to sniff the glue and pay that price to be early adopters. Always happens. Been guilty of it myself too many times.

I'm not a fan of carbon wrapped barrels anyway, period. Have never seen any even potential benefit except weight. Trapping the heat seems like a downer. All that machining on a blank seems like a downer. Cost is a definite downer. Etc. To each his own, but I've never even seen the point.

- DAA
 
Traded for a Carcano Mod. 38 cavalry carbine many years ago. Only 6.5x52 ammo available for it was Norma and it cost about as much for a box of ammo as I had in the rifle. Don't remember the fate of that little rifle, but it was a fun little rifle to shoot.
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Unfortunately COVID(regulations) inflation and fraud money inflation has caused irreversible price points for many manufacturing items. Shareholders and Wall street want to see increased sales revenue, pretty hard to increase sales by lowering prices if labor and materials have increased. So items at the higher end of their market are the first to see sales drop. In order for companies to justify higher prices, marketing pushes engineers to development innovation. A slight change to already established product; lasts longer("you will save money") better performance (earlier version just didn't quite meet the price point) can often keep a manufacturer in business. In the end, consumers will dictate whether a company survives.
 
The 220 swift I run in my everyday coyote gun is a gain twist. If I recall it started at 1/24 and went to 1/14 I'm nowhere near nerdy enough or good enough at record keeping to tell you if it is performing better or worse than a conventional barrel. It was made by a Canadian barrel maker Ron Smith of RKS barrels.
I purchased it for the price point from an old timer selling off old stock and I have zero complaints.
For the guys saying this is new and innovative it's nothing new. I'm sure they have some super duper magic coating that eliminates all wear and adds 50 fps or whatever but the concept isn't new.
 
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