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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 …

After first applying in March for a position in a shooting challenge, I was finally, in October, able to attend. (Cryptic I know, but it has to be like that right now.) With less than a week to liftoff/takeoff, I had to make some decisions. What barrel and cartridge will propel me to my doom? The 6.5 Creedmoor that’s been hitting little bitty bits of steel far far away all summer? The 30" Made in Texas 6mmBR4EVR pin point 105 propeller that creates a magnetic force between bullet and targe …

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 …

"Surviving" a two day National Qualifier PRS Match is not the language to use, or the language most participants would use to describe their experience, playing and having fun in the sun for two and a half days of long distance riflery, while climbing on barricades, belly flopping in the dirt, breathing dirt, squinting into the 100 degree sun, burning hands on barrels and suppressors after expending ten rounds in two minutes twenty times in two days, fighting for cognitive clarity while struggli …