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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 …

The weekend of October 3-4 saw me attending the KRG Windbreaker PRS Match in Washington. Nick and Bob did a fantastic job as match directors, and the setting was one of the best there is in the PRS game. The match was over in good time on Sunday, the food was fantastic, the awards ceremony was no surprise. Clay Blakketter was first, Austin Orgain was second and Darrick Davidson rounded off the top three. There were many more awards for more placings, and a good time was had by all. So, does a gu …

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 …

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 …