Schuetzendave wrote on Nov 29^th, 2021 at 5:53pm:

hi dave in my sport of BPCR Silhouette we dont do breech seating. my benchrest testing was to try and refine my reloads for my sport. i do try to use techniques the benchrest shooters use to enhance accuracy. i did chamber this barrel as the 1000 yd benchrest shooters do and designed a chamber and bullet to match. 
ive been at this sport for 20+ years and am still trying different things to improve. may never quite learn everything but thats the interesting part. things never get old!

Dave that is just not true over the past 23 years + I might have only shot about five 50 shot matches that I can now recall.
Show us some of your 200 yard targets your 100 yard targets are not all that all impressive to me.
I also set a new ASSRA 100 yard 5 shot 5 group average at 100 yds. with my CPA Schuetzen Jr. in 32-40 with the same 15 twist Douglas barrel back in 2013. 
Not with a Miller Action and a full blown Benchrest Rifle setup but with a Traditionally built Stevens CPA Schuetzen Junior and on a Caldwell with a sand bag front rest and enough said from me.

" Your rebuttal is not supporting your claim Douglas barrels are better. "

My accomplishments have.

I never said they were better just that I could not get 3 RKS's to shoot.

It's really not possible to choose a barrel based solely on manufacturer.

All makers put out really good barrels and all makers put out mediocre barrels. The best you do is go with the highest probability of getting a "killer" barrel based on the success others have had with a specific maker. No guarantees! 

I'm with John on the subject of RKS barrels.  I've had three .32 RKS barrels over the years and I was never able to achieve the level of consistent high performance shown in this thread.   

The absolutely best barrel I've had is a .32 cal 8-groove Shilen.  Unfortunately, Shilen stopped making those a long time ago.

Since there is a bit of show and tell in this thread.  Here is a picture of the saddest target ever shot.  The rifle was a Miller with and RKS barrel chambered in .32 RKS.

JackHughs

Jack the RKS barrel appears to be shooting exceptionally well - but the shooter appears to have missed a wind shift or may have screwed up his bench technique on one shot. 
Of course that always seems to happen on the tenth shot for some reason.
We call that the point of over confidence.

Jerry Hartwig has made the minimum 1240 score with his Douglas hummer barrel.
We await the other hummer barrel owners to perform well and be added to our list by shooting 1240 or more.

" Jack the RKS barrel appears to be shooting exceptionally well - but the shooter appears to have missed a wind shift or may have screwed up his bench technique on one shot. 
Of course that always seems to happen on the tenth shot for some reason.
We call that the point of over confidence. "

He was actually pointing out that he also had three RKS barrels that he could not get to shoot and the same experience that I also had.