Ballistic Effects of Altitude, Temperature, and Humidity At a match recently I overheard another competitor comment that the wind seemed to be blowing the bullets more than [...] Read More
Calculating Bullet Weights At a gun show recently, my friend Jerry plunked down on a table a very impressive-looking bullet. It was probably [...] Read More
Air Density and Bullet Performance Primarily the concern of long-range riflemen, air density is a factor that affects all bullets. As soon as a bullet [...] Read More
A Look at Bullet Imbalance and Twist Bullet imbalance–or more correctly, static imbalance–occurs when the axial center of gravity and center of form of a bullet are [...] Read More
Short Barreled Rifles Short Barreled Rifles (SBR’s) are classified as rifles with a barrel shorter than 16” and/or an overall length shorter than [...] Read More
Barrel Fouling This article was published in the March, 2000 issue of Precision Shooting Magazine. It was written as a respose to [...] Read More
What Makes a Rifle Barrel Accurate? Barrels that we’ve manufactured have set a number of World Records and won many National Championships in many types of [...] Read More
Chatter while Chambering The following is an answer I wrote to a customer that had experienced chatter in a barrel while chambering it. [...] Read More
A Look at the Rigidity of Benchrest Barrels While there are a number of factors that determine the accuracy of a rifle barrel, one of the more critical [...] Read More
Benchrest Barrel Weight Calculation Program Download the program free.A problem frequently encountered by the benchrest gunsmith when building a new rifle or rebarreling a rifle [...] Read More
Twist Machine We feel very fortunate to have recently obtained a twist deviation inspection machine developed by Mr. Manley Oakley of the [...] Read More
Drilling Rifle Barrels This letter is a response from Dan concerning an inquiry about potential problems involved in deep hole drilling. It complements [...] Read More
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