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11 years 8 months ago - 11 years 8 months ago #17818 by OleCowboy
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"The Ideal Barrel For A .308 Caliber Tactical Rifle

By Daniel Lilja

(Editor: Recently a TS subscriber wrote to us, looking for some guidance on the barrel contour selection for a .308 chambered tactical rifle. We felt that the inquiry was a bit too broad-based in topic matter and while a scholarly discourse in depth might have been nice... to do the job properly would have taken perhaps a dozen pages... and been a rather dry reading dozen pages at that. Since we live in a "Be practical" type of world, we fired off a "Help!" missive to Dan Lilja, the honcho at Lilja Precision Rifle Barrels (P.O.Box 372, Plains, MT, phone (406) 826-3084), together with a cover letter that mused... "I'm looking for a good, technically-oriented response... but not a rewrite of Gone With The Wind ". The goodfellow, Heaven bless him, must have understood what I was trying to say... because his response was along just the very lines that I was looking for. The editor considers Dan Lilja one of the most knowledgeable of today's authorities on long range rifle shooting.)"

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The Details of Accuracy

By John Haviland

"The origins of accuracy or inaccuracy in a rifle barrel may be difficult to distinguish in an off-the-shelf hunting rifle that is capable of shooting mere one inch groups. Only in a properly constructed benchrest rifle will the details appear that make a barrel accurate become apparent. A couple ten thousandths of an inch variation in a barrel's dimension doesn't matter much in a hunting rifle, but the variation will show up in a rifle capable of shooting five shots into .125-inches or less at 100 yards.

Dan Lilja knows those details. Lilja is a barrel maker from Plains, Montana, a benchrest shooter and past director and president of the National Benchrest Shooters Association. His barrels have won every major benchrest tournament across the country. Hunters, varmint shooters, the US Armed Forces and every major bullet manufacturing company have bought his barrels for their well-known accuracy.

Knowing how and what to look for, from selecting the barrel steel to the final fitting to an action, are all necessary to make an accurate barrel."

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What Makes a Rifle Barrel Accurate?
By Daniel Lilja
“Barrels that we've manufactured have set a number of World Records and won many National Championships in many types of shooting sports. So, why is one barrel more accurate than another? In this article I'll make some comments and observations about what we've found produces a top barrel.”

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11 years 8 months ago #17819 by 13fcolt
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Great post.
I saw on their site they have AR10 18" chromoly for 445.. Kinda makes me wish my barrel was shot out so I could get one.



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11 years 8 months ago #17821 by OleCowboy
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13fcolt wrote: Great post.
I saw on their site they have AR10 18" chromoly for 445.. Kinda makes me wish my barrel was shot out so I could get one.



First 2 links are 404.

Fixed the links

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11 years 8 months ago #17836 by Libertarian623
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Great Article.

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11 years 8 months ago #17856 by BUILDING MY SASS
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I know someone who does work for them...and has won many matches using their barrels....Top Notch... :thumbs:
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