Light Weight Barrel

Item Id: 22

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The KIDD stainless steel light weight barrel and breech are machined as one piece then sleeved with a permanently attached anodized tube. This creates an extremely rigid and durable barrel while maintaining unparalleled accuracy for a barrel in this weight class. This barrel has a bull diameter for the first two inches and then steps down to .870 until the muzzle. The 18" barrel weighs 2 pounds and the 16.5" barrel weighs 1 pound 14 ounces. Our muzzle threading is .475"x1/2"-28 and is available with a protective cap or muzzle brake. We believe these are the finest barrels on the market, each one is hand lapped. Our stainless steel barrel is bored and rifled by Lothar Walther in Germany. Tony Kidd then performs all the final machining to make our match barrel a worthy KIDD product. A proprietary chamber reamer is used to ensure the cartridge and bullet feed smoothly while allowing the bullet to consistently engrave the rifling .020". Our barrels are chambered to accept .22 ammo (not long enough for stingers) and have a 1:16 twist. The unique convex extractor slot eliminates extraction problems by ensuring the extractor is always in perfect alignment with the case rim. Why doesn't everybody use this extractor slot? Because the tooling is very expensive and requires tolerances be held very close for proper machining. Each barrel receives an 11 degree crown and the double ring logo at the muzzle.

We can offer such a great price on this barrel because we don't sell to distributors; only retail and dealer pricing is offered, therefore we don't have to increase our price to compensate for 3 tier pricing. There are cheaper barrels out there but as with all KIDD products, "you get what you pay for."

To avoid "barrel droop," check your clamp to make sure you only have moderate tension on the screws. We tighten them to around 10 inch pounds which is just snug enough to keep the barrel from moving forward. No more than this, as even the slightest tension moves the barrel and receiver out of alignment.

Barrel installation: Depending on your receiver, if there is paint build up in the receiver where the barrel extension is inserted, be sure to scrape that out. If the barrel is tight, use an anti-seize compound to assist in installation. It is best if you can get the barrel started, then turn it over and tap the back of the receiver with a rubber mallet. Be sure to line the extractor slot up as you are installing the barrel. Your barrel is ready to shoot, just run two magazines through it before you really start looking at group size. Do this each time you change brands of ammunition as well. Keep the chamber clean, but don't clean the bore too much as you will decrease accuracy. Depending on the ammo, clean the bore around every 500 rounds.

Customer Reviews

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	Shalee I today got a chance to take the new barrel out to the range, I love it, it grouped extremely well and consistently using 6 differant types of ammunition, anything from the cheapest stuff to low end target quality stuff. Perhaps what pleasantly surprised me the most was the improvement with the bulk ammo and the ease it had in handling all of these brands and types of ammo, from subsonic up to high velocity. Obviously the higher quality ammo provided tighter groups, but the barrel handled everything I ran through it admirably. The lightweight barrel feels totally balanced in the SR-22, I suspect that I may have found the bull barrel to be somewhat front heavy. Very sincerely Howard
	Reviewed by: Howard from N:Y;. on 11/28/2012 5/5

	KIDD Light Weight Barrel 16.5"
	I recently purchased a KIDD Light Weight 16.5" barrel to round out the completion of my modded Ruger 10/22 Carbine & I must say this barrel is accurate! This barrel holds very tight groups even with cheaper brands of ammo I ran a test using 13 different brands of ammo and all rounds performed exceptionally well through this barrel. I found Wolf Match target (40 grain solid)& CCI Mini-Mag (40 grain solid)to perform the best. And as far as cheap ammo CCI Blazer (40 grain solid) & Winchester Super X (40 grain solid) performed fairly well. @ 50 yards with 5 shot groups the group size was 9/16" or 1.4 cm. Very High quality & accurate barrel, I intend on buying another in the near future.
	Reviewed by: Brad Sullivan from Pittsville, WI. on 7/15/2012 5/5

	18 inch threaded light weight barrel
	I have owned several after market barrels for my 10/22s, including heavy bull barrels. The Kidd barrel is the most accurate barrel I have. Supported with just a Caldwell rest located just in front of the trigger group, and using a Kidd single stage trigger (1.5 lbs), I can shoot ragged one hole groups that are less than 1/4 inch at 25 yards. Love the light weight combined with the great accuracy. Had another light weight barrel, but it was not nearly as accurate as this one. Also, this barrel shoots great groups with anything I feed it, from subsonic Wolf Target to high velocity CCI Mini-Mag to hypervelocity CCI Velocitor. Great barrel!
	Reviewed by: Patrick Dom from Colorado Springs, CO. on 1/14/2012 5/5

	18.5"Light Weight Barrel
	I have had my 18.5" barrel now for 1 year. I use if for sporter rifle competition. My scores have continued to improve since I have had this barrel. I am now shooting low to mid 280's with this barrel. I would not hesitate from recomending this barrel to anyone.
	Reviewed by: Jim Winn from Bainbridge NY. on 12/27/2011 5/5

	Mr.
	Best barrel I have ever had for my Ruger 10/22. I am using the KIDD CNC .22 bolt, I personally feel this is the best combination. I do not know how well this barrel will work with a stock receiver but it is AWESOME!!! with the KIDD CNC receiver!!! My best shot so far has been squirrels at 134 yards (distance from my porch to the deer feeder).
	Reviewed by: Ron Rickaway Jr. from Marble Falls, Texas. on 10/23/2011 5/5