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I did a little searching after seeing this post. It appears that some of the older barrels where not so good. There are new owners of the company and they appear to have made improvements in their process, and have gotten some good reviews. Probably not up to the quality of a Lija, but not bad nonetheless. As I am very interested in the possibility of a HM2 barrel for the 455 this may call for more investigation.

 

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On their site the pre-fit barrels are going from $245.00 to about $388.00. Maybe Schnable will pop in and let us know what he was quoted for 455 barrels.

http://www.mcgowenbarrel.com/catalog4.htm

I see he posted while I was typing. I for one will be quite interested to see how things go after they get the patterns made.