Installing a short-chambered barrel yourself might be the best financial option for that tired old Remington Model 700. Start by following these simple steps.

Rifling a barrel was first done successfully in the gun shops of Augsburg, Germany, in 1498. Early rifle makers had to deal with a great many problems in order to successfully rifle a barrel.

“The rifled slug sort of skids across the rifling in the barrel and exits the way it would a smoothbore.” Sabot-style rifled barrels typically have twist rates that can fall between 1:18 to 1:36. For ...

4. Lilja. The smallest three-shot group I’ve ever fired at 100 yards, was fired with a Lilja barrel. It was on a heavy barreled 223 WSSM rifle built by custom rifle builder Charlie Sisk, and it ...

While barrel life is critical for competition shooters, it’s not much of a factor for hunters. Rare is the big-game rifle that has 1,100 rounds shot through it in several lifetimes.