07-23-2020, 11:31 PM
Spool,
When evaluating guns, I pay particular attention to the barrel. A gun's ability to shoot is mostly down to the barrel, followed by the scope and trigger. The rest holds it together and while also important is not as weighted. New guns from manufacturers don't come with scopes so that counts optics out of the equation. Triggers do however, but even they can easily be swapped out. But the barrel is the gun.
For complete rifles LaRue will no doubt use their own barrels and when you look at the description of their barrels there's no detail of the type of steel. Plenty of marketing talk-up about how customers "boast" of "sub MOA" results but not what the barrel is made of. I find that type of marketing deceptive so straight away the BS filter comes out and it becomes a tedious process of trying to separating truth from spin.
La Rue has a vocal fan club who can be quite defensive on gun forums. Good luck to LaRue for engineering this as they spend a lot of money on image marketing and a loyal fan base is a consequence. If you filter out the spin you might find that LaRue is well-made and reliable gun but not necessarily the most accurate rifle.
Depends on what type of rifle you want and your definition of 0-300 accuracy.
When evaluating guns, I pay particular attention to the barrel. A gun's ability to shoot is mostly down to the barrel, followed by the scope and trigger. The rest holds it together and while also important is not as weighted. New guns from manufacturers don't come with scopes so that counts optics out of the equation. Triggers do however, but even they can easily be swapped out. But the barrel is the gun.
For complete rifles LaRue will no doubt use their own barrels and when you look at the description of their barrels there's no detail of the type of steel. Plenty of marketing talk-up about how customers "boast" of "sub MOA" results but not what the barrel is made of. I find that type of marketing deceptive so straight away the BS filter comes out and it becomes a tedious process of trying to separating truth from spin.
La Rue has a vocal fan club who can be quite defensive on gun forums. Good luck to LaRue for engineering this as they spend a lot of money on image marketing and a loyal fan base is a consequence. If you filter out the spin you might find that LaRue is well-made and reliable gun but not necessarily the most accurate rifle.
Depends on what type of rifle you want and your definition of 0-300 accuracy.