Quoted: the debate over chrome vs. other barrel bores has been running a while. if you want an accurate rifle, the stainless and high carbon steel barrels will work better than the chrome lined units. if you shoot cheap surplus ammo nonstop through your rig, you'd be wise to run with a chrome lined barrel.
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You are talking extremities here.
You certainly can have a very accurate chrome lined barrel. I have a Bushy Varminter I had custom built with a chrome lined barrel. I can easily shoot sub-moa groups, and with some loads, even tighter.
Sure, if you are gonna be in harsh conditions shooting surplus ammo etc, chrome is icing on the cake, but it does NOT make the gun automatically inaccurate.
I know I did LOTS of pondering when I bought my first AR about this very topic. One thing I deduced is this. If you buy a SS match barrel, many times you get some of the special flavors, tighter toleranced hand lapped bores, with short leade's and tighter chambers etc. Almost all of the chrome lined bbls are NATO chambers, and mil-spec from breech to muzzle.
How well would a chrome lined barrel with the same accuracy enhancements as SS match barrel perform??? IIRC Krieger made one, and I think there was a guy on this board who was getting SUPERB results from one (a 16" I believe).
So, by default, you are not just judging the chrome lining as an accuracy benchmark, there are other factors as well.
Keep these things in mind. It's not that what septic tank is unture, but just rather extreme in my opinion.
Gundraw