most of the bent 03 barrels iv seen were close to the middle, and all but a couple were saveable,,
the one i thought wasnt, had a dark spot at the inside of the bend, replaced it and gave the old one to my dad, he worked it for a couple hours, and installed it on a shooter, and it shoots pretty darn nice,...have to hand it to him, he put together a nice shooter from junk parts i tossed asside, stock, barrel, bolt ect,, were all to rough for me to use..he made em work.
installed them on a heavy welded Drill rifle reciever that i chose not to recover do to the heavy welding...he,s been shooting that rifle for about 10 years...calls it the trash can rifle.