You can lead a horse to water . I am glad you have 8 years of experience backing up your claims.

Remington uses Hammer Forged Barrels originally they were button rifled. Some of their custom shop guns might use that techniqueas well. Sako,Tikka,Winchester,FN,CZ,Steyr,Weatherby and Ruger as well as others use the same technique(Hammer Forging). The barrels are nice and straight and depending on how frequently the mandrel is changed out very smooth.I know that the only barrels that surpass the barrels on a STeyr,Sako or Tikka are custom barrels that are either button rifled or cut rifled. Hammer forging a barrel is an expensive proposition with machines that cost in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. All that is required to build a button rifled barrel is a deep hole driller and a hydraulic jack that sends a carbide button thru the hole to impress its rifling. WIth a custom buttonbarrel the hole is first drilled via deep hole drilling and then polished to remove tool marks and then the button is inserted and pulled thru the bore creating the rifling. After this the barrels are lapped with a lead lap(molten lead poured into the barrel to create a slug and run up and down the barrel with lapping compouind), It then takes an hour or more to remove tool marks. Do you think Savage does this procedureon every individual barrel? I will bet everything I own that they don't do those steps.They drill and pull the button thru,straighten the barrel. As far as the Go-No-Go gauge that is a fallacy. All you do is chamber the round and screw the barrel down until the bolt closes or doesn't close if it is good you tighten the Savage barrel nut. There is a lot more work involved if a Remington does not headspace correctly. So yes it makes it an assembly operation and not a gunsmith operation.