Brandon Lolkus

Introduction: Threading Is Not a Simple Job Every week, rifles come into the Redleg shop that used to shoot well. The suppressor gets blamed. The ammo gets swapped. The optic gets checked. And the problem doesn't go away because none of those things caused it. In almost every case, the issue starts at the muzzle, and it started the day the barrel was threaded. Most shooters think barrel threading is simple. Cut threads. Screw on a suppressor. Done. Two customer rifles threaded at Redleg both...

The Complete Precision Rifle Diagnostic Guide Why Your Rifle Is Stringing Vertically Few things frustrate shooters more than a rifle that suddenly begins stringing shots vertically . You fire a group expecting a tight cluster, but instead the bullets stack up and down the target. The horizontal spread might be small, yet the group stretches vertically like a ladder. This pattern is extremely common in precision shooting. It appears in hunting rifles, competition rifles, and even well-built...

A Gunsmith’s Guide to 6.5 PRC, 7 PRC, and 300 PRC Over the past decade, the PRC cartridge family  has significantly changed how modern hunting and long-range rifles are designed. Instead of adapting legacy cartridges to modern bullets, the PRC series was engineered from the ground up around long, high-ballistic-coefficient projectiles, modern chamber geometry, and efficient internal ballistics . Today three cartridges dominate the lineup: • 6.5 PRC • 7 PRC • 300 PRC Each cartridge fills a...