nmleon, I honestly am not trying to pick a fight but I click on the link and it took me to an article I could not find the video but here is a quote from the article.
Today, barrel hammering machines are built by Gesellschaft Fur Fertigungstechnik und Maschinenbau (GFM) in Steyr, Austria. They cost about a half a million dollars and can spit out a barrel every three minutes. These machines have reached a very high degree of development and are so sophisticated that they will not only hammer the rifling into the barrel, but it is also possible to chamber it and profile the outside of the barrel all in the one operation. Only large scale arms manufacturers and ordinance factories have pockets deep enough and barrel requirements insatiable enough that they can afford to buy and run such a machine.
This coresponds with the 6 or 7 other articles that I have found on the internet. The other articles state that it takes between 15 sec to 1 minute to button rifle a barrel. I have a manufacturing background and my question is if you have a rifle that you are trying to get as much cost out that you can so you can sell it cheaper and still get the same profit margin out of it then why use a more expensive process. IMO it would be cheaper to use the same barrel that is in the 700. I am assuming remington has a set profit margin that they want to make on their fire arms.
I am okay with agreeing to disagree.
