I was reading some promo material for Remington’s Model 700 Gen 2, and it mentions the rifle having a 5R CHF barrel. Have commercial rifles been using CHF for a while now or is this something more recent?
According to this, Ruger has been using CHF barrels since the early 1990’s:
https://www.rugerforum.com/threads/ruger-cold-hammer-forged-barrels.293775/
A couple of 1960’s-1970’s Steyr ads being sold on eBay mention hammer forged barrels:
Sako has been using CHF for a long time.
If I’m not mistaken I once read where CHF is a rather pricey cost of doing business up front for a manufacturer but long-term it is more cost effective (?).
Not sure about the costs involved, but Germany in WW2 used the CHF process to produce machine gun barrels more rapidly than with other methods. IIRC, the CHF process was actually invented in Germany.
Remington has been doing a 5R barrel for decades. Great barrel. But CHF? That’s new to me.
Remington 700 barrels have been cold hammer forged for quite a while. At least the ones I’ve seen in the last 15 years were all chf. All basic SPS models.
I recall reading that too. Kind of like stamped receivers.
I think that is right and fairly sure several European countries have been using it for decades. I knew Steyr had been using CHF on the SSG69 so I took an educated guess that they had been using it on spotters awhile too. I also was aware of recent Ruger barrels using CHF, but did not know that they started in the early 90’s.