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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 …

Ten competitive shooting years have flown by quicker’n a November goose headed outta Canada for the gulf. Rifles have gotten heavier’n lighter, perfect cartridges have arrived, bags have morphed, glass has been clarified, folks have come and gone. The amount of innovation/invention in the shooting world has accelerated at a rate that the old guys are boggled and the juniors are oblivious. But the old guys can still shoot and the youngster’s proficiency exceeds their mentor&rsqu …