The extreme range shooting world has been pushing the bounds of long range shooting technology from the beginning. 1000 yard shooting was once marveled at and considered by most voodoo. Now 1000 yard shooting and well beyond is common place and generally accepted as something most people can accomplish if they want to learn it. In the last 30+ years of long range shooting, competition and hunting I have seen the seesaw effect of not enough rifle vs. not enough supporting technology continually go back and forth. In recent years with the increased interest in Extreme Long Range (ELR) competitio ..read more

While we have been involved in the pursuit of accuracy for 30 years and have built benchrest style rifles in the past just recently I have found myself interested in actual benchrest competition. I built my first benchrest rifle in 2002 on a Remington 700 action chambered in 6 BR. Picture of original 6 BR I knew nothing of the equipment available to make “bench” life much nicer. Still it was a good experience and I learned quite a lot about benchrest accuracy and more importantly that your ability to read a wind flag was at least as important as your setup and load if not more. Now fast forwar ..read more

In July of 2000, I started work on my first wildcat round aimed at long range hunting. I took the just newly introduced 300 Ultra Mag case (introduced in 1999) and simply necked it out to .338”. I knew I wanted to shoot a bullet with a huge ballistic advantage so I zeroed in on the 300 gr. Sierra Matchking. In 2001 the choices of long range projectiles were very few, nothing like what is available today. I took a heavier profile Hart barrel with a straight taper, 30 inches in length and chambered it using a 300 RUM reamer and a separate neck reamer to create the first 338 Edge chamber. I mated ..read more

Just over a year ago I started playing around with .22 rimfire benchrest shooting. I soon found out that this was quite addicting and it would have been cheaper to be addicted to crack. None the less it is a ton of fun and a great precision shooting training tool. I started off with a CZ 452 Varmint, then a CZ 457 Varmint (a fine factory rifle) and acquired a vintage Remington 40x Rimfire in excellent condition. The 40x really changed my thinking on precision rimfires, the other rifles were great and even excellent rifles for factory rifles but the 40x was defiantly a step above. It was at thi ..read more

Since our development of the 338 Edge we have found it to be one of the more forgiving and easy to use large long range calibers available. Below are some of our pet loads, loading info and notes on reloading for your 338 Edge. Note: Like all reloading data it is just a guide and not an absolute, please use smart loading practices and start 10% low then work up from there. Just because we were able to use charge “X” with our lot of powder doesn’t mean you can. Our original load for the Edge:   Max Brass Length: 2.840” Trim Length: 2.830” H2O Capacity: 118.2 gr. Average Neck Wall Thicknes ..read more

If you have been following our pursuit of precision .22 rimfire accuracy you no doubt have seen some of the test rifles and projects that have come from it in the last year. The Wasp rifle a bright yellow Remington 581 based benchrest rifle. We also did a lot of work with the newer CZ 457 Varmint as a stock class benchrest rifle. Then along came our first prototype .22 RF single shot, Remington 700 SA footprint competition action on Big Red. This rifle was originally topped with a Weaver T36x while waiting on delivery of a Nightforce Competition BR scope in 8-32x. After just a short period o ..read more

Defensive Edge Chamber Reamers   20 PPC 20-250 Remington .22 Rimfire – Field .22 Rimfire – Bentz .22 Rimfire – Match EPS   .22 WRM   224 Terminator 223 Remington 22 BR Remington 22-250 Remington 220 Swift 222 Remington     243 Terminator 6 mm Creedmoor 6×47 Lapua 243 Winchester Ackley Imp. 243 WSSM 243 Winchester 6 mm Remington 6 mm BR 6 XC   25 PRC 25-06 Remington 257 Weatherby Mag.   260 Terminator 6.5 Terminator 6.5 Creedmoor 6.5-06 Remington 6.5-284 Norma 264 Winchester Mag. 6.5 STW 6.5 Remington Mag 6.5 RSAUM 6.5 PRC 260 Remington   270 Winchester ..read more

             Since the first scope was mounted to a rifle sharp riflemen have fought with the best way to get the scope on the rifle level. Why does this matter you ask? If you are a 100 to 200 yard big game shooter it doesn’t. If you are a longer range rifleman it can make all the difference in the world. Now we are not talking about shooting a mile or even 1000 yards here. I am talking about any distance that you have to compensate for drop of the bullet. So your .22 rimfire with a 50 yard zero shooting 100 yards applies here as it will take about 6.25 moa ..read more

TUNER SET UP AND ADJUSTMENT   There are several ways to get the “tune” on your rifle. Below we have outlined our process for this. Lots of people have lots of ideas about this but this is what we do:   Starting bottomed out, shoot 3 shot groups in 1 revolution increments Find the best revolution and shoot 3 shot groups ¼ and ½ revolution above and below this setting. Identify best group, now shoot 5 shot groups with this setting along with 1/8 turn above and below this setting. Once you have identified this sweet spot, write this setting down and log atmospheric conditions. You will ..read more

Early technology, the original gangsters of long range shooting devices were not really shooting devices but rather devices for other uses adapted for long range shooting. These days most everyone has access to or owns a laser range finder, ballistic program, weather station and a device to read the angle of the shot. As technology drives on combining the devices together we now have weather stations like the Kestrel 5700 weather station loaded with the Applied Ballistics software and it also has a built in compass to aid in calculating corrections for coriolis effect. These devices we have to ..read more