Mark - did you ever call Krieger and see if they would agree to take it back and ar least look it over? I deal with them quite a bit, and they seem to be honorable folks who stand behind their products. They also might be able to shed some light on whether the barrel was an oddlemon, or if there was something else amiss.

A couple of years back, I had been waiting the usual three months for .264 barrel blank. They called one day and said they had finally run the batch of barrels, but in the final testing and air gauging the batch was not quite up to their standards. I did a little inquiring about just what these standards consisted of and was fairly impressed. Sounds like the batch of barrels they just junked would have been more than adequate for anyone except a national level competitive shooter.

Two more months later I finally got the barrel.