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Though few are as skilled at hunting and gunsmithing like Randy. Check out his Custom rifles and if ever in Cody check out his numerous trophy animals and rifles at his shop. https://randyscustomrifles.com/about-randy/
Cool, looks like an accomplished gunsmith. Says nothing about his understanding of wildlife management and wildlife policy, which is clearly lacking.
He only has 55+ years of hunting those elk along the North Fork of the Shoshone. Area 51 and 53 elk and their downward demise and forced limited quota status clearly show he’s spot on. Those areas allowed harvests of 300 elk per year before wolves were mismanaged. Now they only offer barely 50 licenses and harvest rates considerably less and they’ll likely never go back to General license hunting. Sad.
He has a video about chambering a 30.06 round into a 270. It doesn’t bode well for the shooter.
Why anyone would ever spend 2 seconds of their lives trying to fix a bent barrel is strange to me. Buy a new barrel and be done with it.
Not only that he is his gunsmith and friend. Next time you are near Cody stop in at his shop and have a look yourself. He was personal friends with Les Bowman one of the engineers behind the 7mm development. He is also a neighbour and gunsmith for Jim Zumbo formerly from Outdoor Life magazine. Les Bowman who famously guided for years in the Thorofare and South Fork area and Les introduced Randy to Col. Townsend Whelen and the late Abdorezha Pahlavi, brother of the Shah of Iran. Only 55+ years of gunsmithing experience.
Almost any new barrel can have a small Kant. This is an old established gunsmithing and metallurgy process. Anyone who spends a lot of time time hunting with horses has had these types of accidents and will be thankful and appreciate such a fix. The barrels are made of metals which have a memory. This method is old , goes back to WWI , British number 1 Manlicher barrels were thin and easily bent even in a small stock. The rifles had to be fixed in the field. Replacment parts were not easily brought back into battle . Some times they would fix the barrel this way by just removing the wood, leaving it in the receiver and all the while in the trenches and being shot at. Outfitters and sportsmen send hundreds of rifles per year to professional gunsmiths which have been damaged by hunters in the field, normally by a rifle in a scabbard taking a big bounce against a tree or a rock. This is a proven historical method of fixing them.
I'm sure it's a proven process to fix barrels...but in the times when barrels were hard to get or needed barrels in war time. That is not the case any more. If you're going to pull a bent barrel off a gun these days...just replace it. If you can't find a barrel due to supply issues, put it in the safe, use another gun, and order a new barrel for the future.
It is still widely utilised by many old school gunsmiths and saves you a bundle of money. You would be a fan if you ever hunt much with horses and deep Wilderness style hunting. Do you discard a computer just because it gets dropped? I guess you’re just part of that disposable generation. I was always taught to fix things, work with what you have with quality long lasting items. So you can just spend, spend and spend some more until the creditors won't let you buy anything else.
How many rifles has he built for you?Not only that he is his gunsmith and friend. Next time you are near Cody stop in at his shop and have a look yourself. He was personal friends with Les Bowman one of the engineers behind the 7mm development. He is also a neighbour and gunsmith for Jim Zumbo formerly from Outdoor Life magazine. Les Bowman who famously guided for years in the Thorofare and South Fork area and Les introduced Randy to Col. Townsend Whelen and the late Abdorezha Pahlavi, brother of the Shah of Iran. Only 55+ years of gunsmithing experience.
I have one of his custom takedown rifles chambered in .308 and 22-250. It shoots amazing.
Special forces and LE even prefer those bent barrels as you can shoot around a corner. Maybe you’re just jealous he got rid of his itch and your old burning hemmorhoids just keep lingering and festering. Barrel straightening has been around a long time and if you ever hunt much with horses you would appreciate it’s usefulness.
Keep displaying your Ignorance it only exposes your lack of long established gunsmithing processes. Ask the Veterans in the military or any Outfitter, they are well versed in its efficacy.
Ive hunted horseback for over 30 years and have never bent a barrel. I must be doing something wrong...
That’s probably why your gun shoots a 4 inch group but hey, still does the job.. LOL. When I was a guide the Outfitter took at least one a year to a gunsmith, it’s well known amongst avid Outdoorsman it can happen and in most cases can be inexpensively fixed, depending upon the severity. Randy has done a bunch of them.
I have never heard of a single person bending a barrel. You dont know any of my rifles from that cheerio shaped hole under your nose. Keep commenting, its very entertaining the level of doodoo you are spilling.
New barrels don't cost enough to ever make me want to straighten one in the highly unlikely event I were ever to bend one.
Keep displaying your Ignorance it only exposes your lack of long established gunsmithing processes. Ask the Veterans in the military or any Outfitter, they are well versed in its efficacy.
Who did you guide for?
Hang on while he googles it...
I once went with a bunch of folks from my gun club I belonged to down to the the Savage factory. Savage "trues" all their barrels with a very simple technique, you look through the bore at a white wall. It is amazing how easy it is to see the bend in the bore. Even if it is only a thousandth or two off. I was allowed to try my hand at straightening one. It was quite easy with their simple overhead press. I was told when they measure a bore with a laser device after this procedure, they were nearly perfect or as close as they could measure.
No need to I know them well, I hunted in the Wyoming Range with the Young family but they sold out in the 1970s. An amazing experience and back then every high mountain basin held big bucks. It’s sad what it has become today. Perhaps you should google how to straighten a bent barrel.
All barrels have a “curvature” to them. It’s impossible to drill a bore perfectly straight but there are a few barrel manufacturers that get pretty darn close. Some gunsmiths time the muzzle with the curvature at 12O clock also.
Exactly what I was saying earlier in the thread. All barrels have a small Kant to them. Savage at the time did this before chambering. This was about 2005 as I recall.
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We focus on trophy elk, mule deer, antelope and moose hunts and take B&C bucks most years.
