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I took everything you see on the table, under the table, on and with the tripod, and raced 1450 miles down south of San Antonio, Texas last week, to participate in Erik Cortina’s 500 yard Blackjack Challenge along with shooting his 500 yard Ethical Hunter Challenge. For those of you who’ve seen those exercises in precision, you get it. For those who got to be this many years old before you heard of such a thing - soon you’ll be able to watch this writer shoot steel under pressu …

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 …

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 …

Last Friday I received a barrel from Douglas Barrels. I can't really say it was long awaited, because it didn't take that long for Douglas to "spin" this barrel up. It came as a prefit for my Impact Precision 737R action that I use for PRS, plinking, steel killing and rock busting. Dimensionally it is 30 inches long and tapered to one inch at the threaded muzzle. Don't ask me what the contour is - I don't know. The thick end is chambered in 6MMBR4EVER! And the other end fits AB Suppressor's Rapt …