Douglas barrels

[Dusty Stevens]

You will still have to set headspace before you shoot it can't just screw it on an go bang LOL.

He said prefit

 

[Stan Taylor]

It ain't a prefit because I looked at what he ordered.

 

[butchlambert]

Awesome ,what did your rifle end up weighting

Been a while but it is around 5lbs. Mark Brown at Brown Precision made a custom kevlar stock for it. It is only a 280AI, but with the lightweight rifle, it has a pretty sharp recoil on the bench.

 

[antelopedundee]

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

I noticed when perusing the Hart and Douglas websites sometime back that cleaning descriptions were word for word exact same vebatim.

 

[muleman69]

Been a while but it is around 5lbs. Mark Brown at Brown Precision made a custom kevlar stock for it. It is only a 280AI, but with the lightweight rifle, it has a pretty sharp recoil on the bench.

I have a Kimber in the .280ai and would like to put a Brown Precision stock on it but they will not answer the phone.

 

[Dusty Stevens]

I have a Kimber in the .280ai and would like to put a Brown Precision stock on it but they will not answer the phone.

Pretty sure you wont get them to since the place burned down

 

[nmkid]

I have a Kimber in the .280ai and would like to put a Brown Precision stock on it but they will not answer the phone.

I just finished my 280AI build. I went with an H-S thumbhole stock from Stocky's. I had to open up the barrel channel but, otherwise, it just dropped in perfect.

 

[muleman69]

Pretty sure you wont get them to since the place burned down

I thought somebody said they were back on there feet? They do have a land line and recorder?

 

[338 dude]

I have used them and they shoot fine. I remember back in the 70's when I got started seriously hunting, they were the only barrel anyone ever talked about. It was as if they were it, and maybe back then they were. If you were at the range and you had a "Douglas air gauged barrel" you were somebody.
Now, I get them in my shop and they shoot fine. You will see tooling marks in the bore just like a factory barrel and just like the same kind of marks I see in Shilen barrels.
If all I was after was a barrel that I knew would shoot good on a hunting rifle I would not hesitate. If I was building a rifle to be the best I own I would probably get something else. I barrel my own actions, but for the average guy that just wants a nice rifle it costs entirely too much to have one barreled and not spend a few dollars more for a better high end barrel with some resale value. Ask yourself this, two identical in every way nice custom rifles for sale, only difference is the barrels...price is the same, you going home with the Douglas or the Krieger????

Krieger

 

[antelopedundee]

Who used to advertise as "the world's finest production rifle barrel"?

 

[butchlambert]

Krieger

Kreiger will not do the light contour that I wanted.

 

[Barlow]

You will still have to set headspace before you shoot it can't just screw it on an go bang LOL.

I am aware of that, it's going to lgs today. Barlow

 

[antelopedundee]

My first barrel was a Douglas FTC in .25-06 maybe 40 or so years ago. Had a friend install it in a Rem 700 action, but he couldn't turn it in tight enough so he sent it to Douglas because they had some "hydraulic" means of doing so. Had a lot of case head separations with it so somehow head space must not have gotten checked. Anyways it's water over the dam.

 

[butchlambert]

My first barrel was a Douglas FTC in .25-06 maybe 40 or so years ago. Had a friend install it in a Rem 700 action, but he couldn't turn it in tight enough so he sent it to Douglas because they had some "hydraulic" means of doing so. Had a lot of case head separations with it so somehow head space must not have gotten checked. Anyways it's water over the dam.

Over the dam? Why did you continue to shoot it with casehead separation problems? He couldn't turn it "tight" enough?
Lot of unanswered questions here.
Oh, by the way, what did Douglas tell you after you discovered that you had a problem?

 

[6MMsteve]

My first barrel was a Douglas FTC in .25-06 maybe 40 or so years ago. Had a friend install it in a Rem 700 action, but he couldn't turn it in tight enough so he sent it to Douglas because they had some "hydraulic" means of doing so. Had a lot of case head separations with it so somehow head space must not have gotten checked. Anyways it's water over the dam.

what???

 

[6MMsteve]

I have a Douglas in 220 swift and it has produced some small groups in the .1s with a .108 group dam good barrel.it's my dime Del ano he ad shot gun..gotta watch those algo bots

 

[antelopedundee]

what???

Just what it says.

 

[antelopedundee]

Over the dam? Why did you continue to shoot it with casehead separation problems? He couldn't turn it "tight" enough?
Lot of unanswered questions here.
Oh, by the way, what did Douglas tell you after you discovered that you had a problem?

I think 40 years qualifies as water over the dam. It didn't appear to be dangerous since there was no inkling that the head had some separation until after the case was extracted. Also it didn't occur on the first firing. In all honesty I wasn't as savvy about such matters as I am now. Could have been a combination of a max chamber and a minimum size die [I still have the die set]. I had the rifle re-barreled by a highly respected smith the smith and he said the chamber wasn't oversize, but it wasn't petite either.

Yes the installer is someone who had done some handgun and other misc stuff for me. Apparently he wasn't an experienced barrel fitter since he said he couldn't turn it in tight enough.

I don't recall that I ever called Douglas, choosing instead to give them the benefit of the doubt. If there was a note in with it when they returned it saying head space was ok I didn't see it.

I ended up giving the barrel away.

 

[Hoodoo]

My first barrel was a Douglas FTC in .25-06 maybe 40 or so years ago. Had a friend install it in a Rem 700 action, but he couldn't turn it in tight enough so he sent it to Douglas because they had some "hydraulic" means of doing so. Had a lot of case head separations with it so somehow head space must not have gotten checked. Anyways it's water over the dam.

So so so so so many follow up questions to this statement.

I'll start with this.

If you have to use hydraulics to tighten your barrel, I'm praying for whoever takes the first shot in that gun.

 

[antelopedundee]

So so so so so many follow up questions to this statement.

I'll start with this.

If you have to use hydraulics to tighten your barrel, I'm praying for whoever takes the first shot in that gun.

The guy got it off, but had trouble getting it back on [for whatever reason] so he called Douglas and they told him to send it to them. I assume they didn't set it to overdraw when they snugged it up. How could it be any worse than using a 6 foot pipe on the action wrench? How do you suppose Remington [who probably does hundreds a day] does it? Don't you think they probably have it automated? My mistake was not having an experienced fitter [or Douglas] do the work.