Douglas barrels
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+ 1 on what Matt said, these are the facts……… jim
A blind hog finds an acorn once in a while.
Pay the extra money and get a Krieger.
Depends on what degree of accuracy your looking for.
1/4 in. groups = hunting rifle accuracy
1/4 in. groups in benchrest = loser
Dusty Stevens
Shiner
Did a guy with a douglas barrel steal your wife? This is 2 old threads you dug up to bash them on.
Like a lot of guys on here I had no clue that Mr. Taylor was affiliated with Douglas barrels. He seems like a reasonable and intelligent fellow. He has liked many of my posts and I have read and liked many of his. I had no idea they changed something about the way they were making these barrels. Not that there was anything wrong or slight about the previous ones.....I think I will give one a try the next time I need a barrel.
I remember when I was about 14 {1975} and asking all the "older" guys with Douglas barrels at the hunt club, "what's an air gauge???" Not a single one of them had an earthless clue of an idea, but we all knew it had to be good!!! No other barrel maker was claiming to use one. Later, in the early 80's when I moved to Pa. if you didn't have a Unertl scope sitting on top of a Douglas barrel you had best just go on home if you couldn't take a little teasing.
I remember when I was about 14 {1975} and asking all the "older" guys with Douglas barrels at the hunt club, "what's an air gauge???" Not a single one of them had an earthless clue of an idea, but we all knew it had to be good!!! No other barrel maker was claiming to use one. Later, in the early 80's when I moved to Pa. if you didn't have a Unertl scope sitting on top of a Douglas barrel you had best just go on home if you couldn't take a little teasing.
Where do you think Hart went to, to learn how to make button barrels,Shooter of the year in IBS used a Douglas in his heavy gun, the heavy gun winner at Williamsport shot one a couple of years ago and he was the only one with a Douglas both were 300 WSM's.
1/4 min hunting gun accuracy at 100, you bring it out I have a range out back....... jim
1/4 min hunting gun accuracy at 100, you bring it out I have a range out back....... jim
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Thanks Jim...I guess I can learn something everyday if I try. One thing confusing though:
"shot one a couple of years ago he had the only one both were 300 WSM's used them."
I've read this 138 times and I am just not getting it....ya lost me at "he".....
I appreciate the offer to "bring it out" but, the way I shoot I think my guns all caught "barrel lice"....you know, those little animals that eat all the rifling out of the bore. I need to get that new Douglas barrel sooner!!!!
Similair experience to one of the previous posts, bought a 17 cal barrel, smith chambered it and let me know it was tight, right on the edge of being too tight. He said it would shoot great or be a turd, nothing in between...it was a turd. Sent it back, this was a unchambered barrel in the white when I started. After chambering, bluing, engraving I was out over 400.00. They sent me their cheapest CM barrel and it took about 2 months to get it. They acknowledged it was theirs but was one they no longer offered, acknowledged it was too tight. Bottomline, Ive bought many barrels over the last 20years, have had issues with almost every manufacturer at one time or the other. Douglas was the only one I came out of it grinding my teeth. Too many other good ones out their to jerk around with Douglas. Had a Shilen that the muzzle was belled being chambered by Kevin Weaver, called them and they sent one out the next day, said keep the old one, they didn't want it back.
This discussion of Douglas barrels brings back some old memories of a rifle that I had back in the early 70's. I bought it from the estate of a crop duster who liked to shoot hawks and crows at long distance. It was a pre-war model 70 Winchester (1937) and had been rebarrelled by Womack in Shreveport. It was marked .220 Swift and Douglas Timken Steel. The barrel was a very heavy bull barrel and there was a wide laminated wooden stock. It had a 6x-24x Bausch and Lomb scope (externally adjustable). The rifle was amazingly accurate for its time and I have a target somewhere around here that is about 7/8ths inch and it was 3- shots at 300 yards over the hood of a friends truck with sand bags. I don't know about Douglas barrels today, but that one was very accurate. I also got some old Wotkyns Morse bullets, the original .220 swift barrel and old 4 power German scope with the rifle.
I used Douglas when I could buy from Brownell's and have them shipped to Canada. Those days are long gone now. I bought a #2 26" Douglas that I stored away to build a rifle for myself. After 25 years I got tired of making rifles for other people (not really) and decided it was time to use this barrel and build one for myself. My wife asked who the rifle was for, she didn't believe it was mine, she said you never make any for yourself. I chambered the barrel in 6.5/06, used a JC Higgins action (Husqvarna) in a fibreglass stock by MPI, Timney trigger and 3-10 Weaver GS scope. Used 25/06 brass necked up and Nosler machined 140 gr. partitions. First three shots measured .285! At some point later I loaded Nosler 130 gr. Accubonds, 3 shots measured .126" and this is a hunting rifle. When someone asks me what is a Douglas barrel I tell them they are the company that all other barrel makers learned from.
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butchlambert
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My last Douglas was a pencil thin CM barrel in 7mm for my Titanium Pierce rifle. I built a 280AI and I am very happy with it.
I like your choice for a chamber!
Dusty Stevens
Shiner
Thats cool right there
You have what I call an heirloom there my friend that's sweet.
Monte F
Silver $$ Contributor
It's a shooter with 75 gn. ffg and a patched ball. Only take it out when I get a muzzle loader tag. About a 16 lb. rifle to carry around. The lock is late 1800 or early 1900, been several years (15) since I had it out to clean after getting got in a rain storm. My late uncle that built it was part of the muzzle loader crowd around Columbus OH. I remember some amazing rifles that they would shoot (X cutters).
muleman69
USMC -1st marine Div. RVN
Awesome ,what did your rifle end up weighting
You will still have to set headspace before you shoot it can't just screw it on an go bang LOL.
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