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Old 10-13-2017, 05:19 PM
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Originally Posted by william t. oviatt View Post
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
Bill,
CZ call it a barley twist barrel. Very much like the barrel on my Steyr Mannlicher.
Ken.
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