Bar Sto gun barrel for my Glock 36 notice what's missing? Yes spring stop sheared off while practicing at the range. This was my defensive gun had I been in a shootout I would have been (SOL). emailed Bar-Sto pix said to send barrel in eight weeks later nothing. I'll know not to put their crap in a weapon again! Beware, service is piss poor!
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How many rounds through that barrel? Your photos are somewhat blurry, but, as far as I can tell, the fractured surface desn’t look like what one would tyically see with a fatigue failure. Have you ever dropped the barrel onto a hard surface? If not, I’d suspect a defective heat treat on the barrel if there were no obvious cracks at the lug-barrell transition when you first received the barrel. A hardness test might be very informative. If you don’t have the equipment, there may be a local heat treating shop in your area which could run the test for you. If the test came back showing the material to be soft, more than one barrel might be affected as small volume manufacturers typically run parts through heat treatment using a batch process.
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Some more questions occured to me. Were you shooting factory ammo or reloads? Did you notice an unusually loud report when the lug sheared off or anything else unusual. Do you have the piece that broke off? If so, please post a good close up of the fractured surface.
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The key here is "NO" customer service and eight weeks(8) with not a word or anything from any company is just plain "WRONG"
So it broke, So things that should never break at times do. It happens.
But sending it in and being ignored is really frustrating.
Ronnie
So it broke, So things that should never break at times do. It happens.
But sending it in and being ignored is really frustrating.
Ronnie
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That's pretty awful CS. Good heads up for people that might consider one of their barrels. 
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Agreed - even accounting for these COVID times.That's pretty awful CS. Good heads up for people that might consider one of their barrels.
8 weeks is ridiculous. It screams that they do not care.
As for replacement barrels, if my carry gun ever needs one (Glock), I'd either get a factory Glock original replacement, or if that's not an option, I would replace the entire gun. I've got a thing for keeping my carry guns strictly stock with no modification or aftermarket parts, including the magazines.
I just don't want any hassles if I ever had to use the weapon in self-defense.
I'd rather not take on any more liability (real, or imagined) than is absolutely needed.
Less than 2,000 rolls
I only shoot factory seen too many cases of exploding gun from reloads
Sad as I emailed them and then sent the barrel to them as requested. Six weeks later not a peek from them.
It’s supposed to be milled from a solid piece that was Bar Sto claim to fame.
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Yeah, and that makes sense. Welding induces distortion and that’s the last thing one would want to do with a high precision item like a pistol barrel.
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Adtually; the last (and only) two piece barrels I heard of were the Brazilian Springfield 1911 barrels.
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Walther Creed has a multi-piece barrel. Geoff Who notes it's no longer on the WaltherUSA website. Interesting.
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Most likely because the only reason for a multi-piece barrel is to lower machining time; which equals lower cost to the manufacturer. Multi-piece barrels are not a good idea.
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The US Army is quite happy with the M-16/M-4 series of rifles/carbines. The barrel extensions are separate pieces. The multi-piece barrels seem to work well in other applications.
Geoff
Who notes it depends on what you consider parts of the barrel, cross reference modern S&W revolvers.
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You’re mixing apples and oranges. Barrel extensions, flash hiders, etc. don’t have to contain the pressures that a two piece barrel consisting of a separate piece comprised of the chamber, lower lug/barrel feet, and barrel lugs, attached to a separate barrel tube does.
Under your “definition;” the barrel shroud used by S&W on some models of their newer revolvers would be part of a two piece barrel. It’s not, it’s a barrel shroud. The barrel is a stainless steel tube that is comprised of the forcing cone, and bore, all of which are machined into the stainless barrel. I suppose under your definition, the cylinder, which contains multiple “chambers,” could be considered part of a two piece barrel; but it’s not.
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