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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 …

Last Saturday, Dan Bukros, a sponsored shooter for Kelbly's, called with exciting news. He'd just broken in a PRS rifle with roughly two hundred rounds—the standard for serious competitors before their first match—and discovered something remarkable. Using ThorroClean with a bronze brush, just twenty strokes brought his barrel down to clean steel. He was genuinely thrilled by how quickly and thoroughly it worked. That efficiency matters more than you'd think. Consider another story f …

By Les Voth - Bix'n Andy USA Have you been properly “braked”? Before my introduction to PRS competition I was dead set against brakes. I never owned one. I never even used one until I shot a Thompson Encore in 300 Winchester Magnum with a JP Howitzer Brake installed. That was the extent of my “braking” experience.  That Howitzer brake proved the effectiveness and usefulness of shooting with a brake, but my shooting comrades that day threatened my wellbeing if I ever …

By Les Voth - Bix'n Andy USA In the beginning of my PRS shooting adventure there was not much standardization for stage times. One match was 90 seconds per stage. One was 105. Another stretched into a more comfortable 120 seconds. Then, a match director with a serious sense of humor, had a 60 second per stage match - for the entire match. And, yes, it was the same ten shots per stage, dialing for distance, and “all gear in hand” behind the line to start at the ubiquitous “BEEP& …

TRAINING & PERFORMANCE Ask a top PRS shooter how many rounds they keep loaded at any given time, and the answers might surprise you. Not because the numbers are extreme — though some are — but because of what those numbers reveal about how the best competitors in the country actually train. I recently put that question to a group of PRS match winners and world-event competitors across the United States. The survey was simple: How many rounds do you typically keep loaded? How does …