500 Yard NRA F-Class

[Klem]

There's no need for fluted barrels in F-Class and I have never seen one in my years of shooting this discipline. Fluting is extra cost and shaves weight off the gun. In some types of shooting it's good to have a light barrel or manipulate the weight of the gun within a max limit but in F-Class you want weight. Big thick barrels don't get hot enough to be concerned when you are shooting 12-round strings with lengthy breaks in between. Fluting looks more cool than it actually cools.