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Recently I got a Douglas barrel from the West Virginia barrel maker over by Charleston. They’ve been making barrels since 1948. They make contoured barrels to fit your factory stock, and truck axle 1.25" pipes, too. I opted for a svelte .900" muzzle for my 6mmBR. (And I was the one to write with a marker on the barrel . . .) I thought I was just about out of Varget around the time the barrel got to me, so for the first run of a few hundred rounds I decided to try 6.5 StaBall. It is pretty …

If you go onto Cal Zant's Precision Rifle Blog, one of the most common themes when he interviews accomplished shooters about what new shooters should do, is that new shooters should pick something, run it until they find that something specific is holding them back, then change just that one thing. You have to throw a lot of lead downrange to discover the actual issues with your equipment. Part of the reason for that is that - you don't know what you don't know - about what you've got, until you …

How many points of contact should you aim for, for effective shooting? Typically 2 points of contact on the rifle itself (front and rear support), plus a strong body/base with as many additional points of contact as possible for overall stability. In PRS (Precision Rifle Series) barricade shooting, "points of contact" generally refers to how the rifle is supported for stability, recoil management, and quick follow-ups. The goal is to minimize wobble while balancing speed and precision, especiall …

This is not for the faint of heart, but for the hard of hearing: Douglas is about to enter a new world. The world of competition. Tomorrow morning at 4:00am Douglas will be thrown unceremoniously into the back of Les' "Look At Me" yellow Jeep, and upon arrival at the Rush Lake Range in Minnesota Douglas will begin spewing the first of 100 plus Berger 105 Hybrids at distant steel targets. Fast and Furious will not be the mantra of the day - more like Slow As You Go. Les will expend every effort t …

In 2012 benchrest shooter Chris Harris, owner of BulletCentral.com, brought Austrian gunsmith and engineer Andy Atzl's Bix'n Andy triggers to America. Since then, their collaborative innovation has not slowed or stopped. Well known to the benchrest world, the Remington 700 Competition trigger with its frictionless ball trigger design, has broken records and replaced what came before. Amongst their owners, there is a love for Bix'n Andy triggers that pervades their users. The mechanism that repla …