H&R's barrel program is 180 degrees different from the Bargara. If you want to buy another barrel from H&R, you have to send your current gun into H&R and they will do the fitting. H&R will not sell you a barrel and then tell you to buy a file and "fit it up".
Now, that certainty doesn't stop individuals from selling there barrels on forums, or gun shows or anywhere else. Those types of sales are well beyond the control of H&R.
As far as the inferior barrels are concerned, I am just pointing to what a well known gun enthusiast has written. Funny though, you would think if there were no truth to it, a company with all of it's resources would certainly have filed legal documents to have such statements stricken from being posted on a public forum for all to read. Unless of course, there is truth to it. And in that case there isn't anything anyone can do about it.
BTW, if you go back and actually read my post, and look at MY WORDS, I never stated that these barrels blow up. I stated that a very well known and knowledgeable fellow made these statements.
So, again. Buy what you like. I really don't care.
Dave