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It's a centuries old question asked by manufacturers since the dawn of the industrial revolution: Are you seeking quality products crafted in limited volume, or inexpensive products produced in large quantities? Believe it or not, a number of small custom machine shops still take painstaking measures to produce match-grade barrels on historic WWII-vintage Pratt & Whitney gun drills, manually chambering their barrels on lathes old enough to qualify for social security.
On the opposite side of the coin, some massive arsenals churn out countless thousands of bulk-quantity “mil-spec” barrels, cutting costs by skipping small steps essential to the creation of a high-quality product. To reduce setup time, many of these businesses stretch the life of their tooling (and their machining tolerances) to their max, pinching pennies to maximize production volume. Unfortunately, their customers pay for those cost-cutting measures when they hit the range with the finished product.
We’re going to let you in on the firearm industry’s dirty little secret: You don’t need to choose between the two. By leveraging modern manufacturing technology, Vortakt Barrel Works can incorporate many of those match-grade features you’ve come to expect from the custom shops while exceeding the production capacity of many of those large-scale production facilities. By automating processes, maintaining a rigorous tooling schedule, and ensuring our state-of-the-art UNISIG machines maintain immaculate tolerances, Vortakt Barrel Works can produce large quantities of barrels with match-grade quality. If you’re a rifle manufacturer that needs high-performance lapped barrels in volumes exceeding 50 pieces, our 300 and 400 Series barrels are impossible to beat!
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