Web Site Updates, New Products, Recent Wins & Hunting Pics

June 2010 - Coming soon - CAD drawings as a website .pdf download of our special rimfire contours and straight tapers
June 2010 - .243 chambered AR10 type barrels now available
May 2010 - Matt Emmons and German shooter Julian Justus shoot well in smallbore events - Click Here
March 2010 - AR10 type .308 drop-in barrels, for details - Click Here
January 2010 - Wondering if there is interest in a .22 drop-in barrel for the CZ 455?
Frequent updates to our in-stock barrel page - Click Here
Dan's Surplus Stuff - Click Here

Joe Farmer with his Lilja barreled BSA rimfire and new Dewar Metric record targets. For more about Joe and his shooting in 2009 - Click Here

Sam Hall recieves his trophy after winning the IBS 600 yard 2009 National Championship in South Dakota. For more details - Click Here

Greg Drown won the 2009 NRA Smallbore 3-position any-site National Championship - Click Here

Laura Goetsch accepting one of her awards at the silhouette nationals.

Our new Haas TL1 CNC lathe. This machine will help us produce our drop-in barrels including the AR types.

Jamie Beyerle has had a fantastic career using Lilja .22 rimfire barrels. For a complete listing of Jamie's accomplishments over the years - Click Here We're very proud to be a part of Jamie's team.

RH sent us this picture along with the message: "Dan, I shot this 6x6 bull elk with one of your barrels in Tabernash CO last fall. I was wandering in the woods when I found a beautiful 210 yard bowling alley with a perfect broadside shot while he was eating. I took one shot offhand and it was all over." He was also using one of the new Nightforce 2.5x10x32 scopes he purchased from us.

Liz Winder of Washington sent us this picture of her Shiras moose she shot in October of 2008. Liz used one of our .338 barrels chambered by Jim Cloward to shoot this fine moose. Her husband Wade notes that she's wearing a Lilja hat too in the picture. Nice shooting Liz!

Steve Hallenbeck of Alaska sent us these pictures of two dandy Dall rams and a grizzly he and his brother Gary shot in the Brooks range. Steve's ram was 14 years old too. Not many rams live that long anywhere. They both used rifles with Lilja barrels gunsmithed by Kevin Weaver. What a great hunt.

A 20 year old grizzly from the Brooks range shot by Gary Hallenbeck and a Lilja 340 Wby Mag barrel. The skull measures 20" - very nice for a Brooks range bear.

Dan's May 2007 Prince Of Wales Island, Alaska black bear. This is an honest 7' - 8" black bear with an official B&C skull score of 21 - 0/16". The rifle is his Lilja barreled 340 Wby Mag on a Remington 700 SS action, McMillan stock and a Nightforce 2.5-10 NXS scope. This big boy measures over a foot between his ears. For more on this hunt - Click Here

Our shop located just north of Plains, Montana.

Alaska resident Steve Hallenbeck sent us a couple of pictures of a recent self-guided dall sheep hunt he and his buddy Kyle went on. They're both dandy rams and shot in the same part of the Chugach mountains that Dan hunted for sheep in1997. Steve and Kyle used the same rifle with one of our barrels and Steve sent this note along with the pictures: "My ram is 11yrs old, 36” x 13.75”. I took him in the Chugach Mountains at 403 yards with a rifle built by Kevin Weaver chambered in 280 Ackley using your barrel. The very first 3 shot group on paper (after break-in) was .488”, shooting 160 Nosler Accubonds, and this is from a pencil thin Mountain Rifle Barrel Contour. This rifle is built on a 700 Titanium action; gun/scope and all weigh 6 lbs 1oz." An 11 year old ram is exceptionally old for this rugged country. Dan also hunted goats in the Chugach in 2000.

Chuck Lester from Anchorage sent us this picture with the following:

"We stalked within 75 yards as it was on a berry patch. My friend was the shooter and hit it hard with the first shot from a .338. I followed up on the shoulder with my Lilja .375H&H. It tried to run down hill from us, but we put two more shots into it. My friend hit it in the front paw and I hit it in the side quartering away (almost Texas heart shot), which exited the neck. It was pretty much dead after the first two shots, but it just didn't know it yet. Probably only ran about 50-75 yards before piling up in the alders. We saw five grizzlies total. Took an even prettier one last year...all blond". Chuck is on the right in the image and has a number of Lilja barrels he uses hunting in Alaska.