Just curious as to why you used the word Kreiger,instead of Criterion when you made the statement below.
My factory Accumark (.300 wby) comes with a heavy contour stainless fluted Krieger barrel,
Could it be because you thought that Kreiger might impress more people than Criterion?
And why do you suppose that Weatherby no longer constantly mentions Kreiger in it's advertising for the Mark V rifles,like they did in the past?Could it be because Kreiger did not want people to assume that the factory rifles had real Kreiger barrels?
The quote from the Kreiger website appears to support that theory.
[align=left] Q: Why is there some confusion that we might do button rifling? [/align] [align=left] A: In 1999, we started another barrel company Criterion Barrels that manufactures button rifled barrels for the O.E.M. market. These barrels are not directly for sale to the general public. Recently there have been some magazine articles written regarding this company which has caused some confusion. Be assured that when you order a Krieger Barrel, you are getting a single-point cut-rifled Krieger Barrel. [/align]
If Kreiger only considers single-point cut-rifles barrels to be Kreiger barrels,I am certainly going to take their word for it.