The whole chrome lining and accuracy isn't actually true. It's all about the barrel. Chrome lining adds cost to the barrel, so a barrel of the same quality will often be cheaper. You are just getting a better nitride barrel for the price of a cheaper chrome barrel. If you discounted price and had a quality company make basically identical barrels, whine chrome one nitride, they would perform essentially the same. Maybe not EXACTLY, since every barrel is different, but close enough.
Chrome is also harder than nitride treated steel.
The whole nitride is more accurate started as a marketing thing when it became popular. A company producing fully nitrided barrels claimed that their product was more accurate in order to boost sales, and it just stuck.
The whole chrome lining and accuracy isn't actually true. It's all about the barrel. Chrome lining adds cost to the barrel, so a barrel of the same quality will often be cheaper. You are just getting a better nitride barrel for the price of a cheaper chrome barrel. If you discounted price and had a quality company make basically identical barrels, whine chrome one nitride, they would perform essentially the same. Maybe not EXACTLY, since every barrel is different, but close enough.
Chrome is also harder than nitride treated steel.
The whole nitride is more accurate started as a marketing thing when it became popular. A company producing fully nitrided barrels claimed that their product was more accurate in order to boost sales, and it just stuck.