Joe:

For each 20 shot event I shoot four shots into the dirt to stabilize my barrel and then six sighter shots to judge the wind and centre my rifle before going on score. You know I like to kick dirt since I cannot shoot.

Dave

Oh Joe:

I need to double the number of sighters when we have a performance bet. Now how much of a handicap were you giving me this year?

One shot fouler? How did you get a Smith Family barrel?

Dave

Yah, but I ended up with the American export barrel and you got the high end RKS Family barrel!    It just ain't right.    If you haven't been shooting you must be all rested up.

On the weekend I had to wade through chest deep snow to get to the 300 yard line. Probably be in hospital recuperating from my sixth heart attack.

Schuetzendave wrote on Mar 27^th, 2013 at 6:00pm:


There are a number of threads where it's almost impossible to tell if our collective legs are being pulled and, if so, how hard.

So tell us, please - is the "Smith Family Barrel" a real thing or does it exist in the same universe as the Side-hill Gouger and the Jackalope?  Enquiring minds want to know.

JackHughs

Jack, you haven't heard of the Smith Gain Twist barrels that  Ron Smith makes in Canada, most of the really good shooters have gone to them...
cat...masher

The Smith Family Clan has shot numerous 250 perfect targets:

Ron Smith
Colleen Molendyk -Pipke
Rob Pipke
Greg Molendyk
Jason Molendyk

Family members have all have worked in the RKS machine shop to manufacture their own gain twist RKS rifle barrels which are dubbed Family barrels.

Us outsiders wonder how much more extreme precision and care might be taken when they make their own Family barrels for their own use. Regardless RKS Family barrels have proven to be ultimately accurate in competition. Of course we do not know how much of Ron Smith's coaching has contributed to this or the machine skills which he has also passed on to his Family.

Do Family barrels exist. Definitely. They are not a figmentation of imagination.

Ron even volunteered to let me cut rifle my own barrel. I declined and relied on his ultimate skills and my barrel is close to being a Family barrel as well.

I watched Ron take all day to cut my rifle barrel. Hand feeling all 320 cuts to make sure the cutter shaved perfectly when he cut rifled my gain twist barrel.

Schuetzendave wrote on Mar 28^th, 2013 at 1:30am:


Hi, and thanks.

Given the interesting back-and-forth between you and Joe, I suspected that "Family Barrels" might be the Unicorns of the Schuetzen community.

JackHughs

My Canadian unicorn horn barrel is 14.5. 

Dave, I had a borrowed 35/55 reamer of Garbe's. He wanted it back before I could use it.  You're getting as bad as I am at reading posts.  On my Zischang Borchardt. Loading method - muzzle loaded or fixed or breech seated. I had Ron rifle a couple blanks I installed false muzzles on.  Have a brand new .35 X 300 grain tapered Pope style mold by Hoch and several other .35 molds.  Because it's different. 

       Joe.