Not sure of other's methods in hammer-forging, but I saw a video, years ago of CZ's Factory, and all their barrels come out of the hammer angular-shaped, and then machined round.
Their higher-dollar Ebony rifles, are just barrels that are kept in the angular-shape and then finished and blued...they shoot just as well as the round-finished ones do! And, they look great!
Bill
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