never said it was wrong did I?

No you sort of insinuated it

I do know that a ruger worker soon after retirement made it known that 6 months after ruger purchased 4 hammer mills, the company had an investment of $4.25 in each barrel.

Lets see now. One of those machines cost in the hundreds of thousands. Ruger is based out of NH and pays a decent wage and divide that by the number of barrels they make each year then I guess you can say 4.25 or anything you want because neither you nor I know that the real freaking price is. If you know anything about steel prices a bar of CM in that length is double that price but if you insist on arguing.


as far as custom makers not using button rifled barrels, about any custom smith will use a hart barrel if you request it, they are buttoned rifled,button rifled barrels are faster than cut rifleing and run under less pressure with the same load, and not much difference in accuracy.
RR

RR you really need to read my posts a whole lot better . No one said anything about barrels that custom smiths prefer. We have been discussing Savage rifles with their button rifled barrels which are on a different planet then most custom button rifled barrels.Why you keep bringing in Hart barrels into this conversation is beyond me. Does hart build barrels now for Savage if not then keep up with the posts.