Best line of the whole interview in regards to barrel break in! Eric - But do they really need to? Ken - ...... No. I loved it Eric, thank you so much for everything you do for the shooting community!
Now I have 7 weeks and 54 minutes to wait for my barrel. LOL I greatly enjoyed this video. It's great to hear how much care is going into the fabrication of my barrels. It makes the wait a little easier. Thanks guys.
Eric I have a question. I have owned many different custom barrels over the years and have wondered do these custom barrel makers ever take a shot out barrel and redrill rerifle to a larger caliber?
I just screwed on a Brux barrel on my FTR rig and the first shot out of the barrel was dead on bulls eye. I was impressed. This is gonna be a good one I think. I hope Norman is passing on all his knowledge for future generations. It sounds like he IS the business. Thanks Erik.
Fantastic Interview! Great stuff Erik! Best Part - 46:38 - On "Barrel Break-In" Erik: Do they really have to do that? (Shoot, clean, shoot, clean) Ken: No, but it gives people confidence. (Makes them feel better.) I cackled just like Erik. I'm sold. Honest old school owner on the front side, mad scientist old school owner making magic in the back, 5 employees, hand lapped, single point cut rifled. Works for me. I'm going to try a Brux on my next 6mm project. I have 3 Kriegers and 3 X-Calibers. Time to expand the stable. I think the quality of a Brux is probably right there with Krieger or Bartlein but without the 14 month wait.
Ive ran about them all and all i run on both my 1000yd benchrifles as well as order for customers are Brux. Never saw a dud from them like i have from kreiger and as far as Bartlein they are the last i would ever buy after my experience with the last dozen or so people came in with to have chambered and threaded
Appears to me that Brux has adopted the ways of whom I consider the greatest barrel maker of all time Harry Pope! Harry’s barrels were untouchable as far as accuracy goes just like Brux barrels are today!
If the object is built in mm work must be done in mm; conversely if it is built in inches work must be done in inches. the conversions induce error and there are some real horror stories if you don't,
I work in optics (opto-mechanical engineering), mostly on prototypes or small batches. The production side only one shift and I always get questions as to why. The answer is always quality. First shift is almost always going to be your more experienced guys because they don't want to deal with the weird hours anymore. As a result you get a pretty dramatic drop in quality of your stuff relies on hands on work. Our leads are sometimes a year or more (at least my projects) but I'm not sure I'd be able to deliver at all of we added shifts.
Thanks Erik, another great interview. Your channel may be the best platform for answering the question "why do barrels speed up". Looking forward to you "figuring that out".
Parker Ackley made barrels back in the day, he made 3 and 5 and 7 groove barrels and claimed an odd numbers of riflings worked best. He used to say "A 3 legged bar stool doesn't rock on the floor". I think of all the barrels i have chambered and shot in 6mm i have had the best luck with 3. groove barrels. i've put on a ton of Brux barrels over the years and have never had a dud and they last longer than other barrels do and clean up nicely and shoot awesome. They are my #1 go to barrel.
Thank you for doing these interviews! I learn something every time I watch one. I hope to see the barrel making process, from start to finish, in person, some day!
Very informative! Except for accuracy, what makes a competition barrel better than like you said it is only my PRS barrel? The manufacturing process stays the same, does it come down to the profile or what?
Can someone advise. I have Tikka t3 1:10 twist. I paper-punch hornady ammo. Which weight will stabilise best out to 400 yrds: 100gr sp at 2900's fps or 87 gr bt at over 3000 fps?
I bought a Brux barrel and Borden action a year ago because of you ERIK.. I almost went with Shilen Barrels because my AR15 has a Shilen barrel; and its by far the most Accurate AR15 Im own.Its a Ratchett groove. IThe Brux and Borden & SEB Rest has helped my shooting alot. .I ordered a V4 Auto Trickler and scale.I cant spend $4K on the Prometheus yet.Im not that good yet.Im working on it thougjh.Great Video Thank you and Mr Ken Clemens
I have a Brux that I had chambered in 338 Norma. I have a Christensen Mesa Long Range that was originally a 338 Lapua, and I was never really happy with its consistency.. After rebareling it with my Brux, it HAMMERS. Very happy with it. It won’t be my last one either.
I guess if you don’t have a big name Brux doesn’t want to talk to you . I have e-mailed them twice with no response. By the way Erik I will be sending for another control comp for the end of my muzzle. They work great. Thank you.
Brux makes flat out awesome barrels. I help a gunsmith from ashland va. With smokeless muzzleloaders. 325gr pills @ 3200fps. With amazing accuracy. Sub 1/3 moa is the norm. He only uses Brux barrels and goes through 100s of them. Most of my really good rifles have brux barrels
Crazy that he mentioned McWhorter rifles there local to me, home of the $6,000 hunting rifle, they sell a bunch of rifles for people that have plenty money to burn on deer rifles
`HEY bRUX bARRELS ONE MORE TIME. I HAVE A 7-08 BARREL ON A REM 700 ACTION THAT I would like to change. Do you have any 28 inch stainless, 1/7 twist, heavy varmit barrels that you could send to me ???
I love my Brux Barrels. Great quality. Ken and Norm, and all their machines are fantastic. I had six rifles rebarreled this past year. All shoot sub MOA. Norm is a genius, barrels are more than perfection.
Carbon barrels are a PITA to tune the loads . Dont do it Eric !!! Theres nothing wrong with a pencil hunting barrel set up for a cold bore shot !!! Skip the flutes too and just go lighter . If that bothers you put a tuner on it . It will Shoot !!!
Bergara is working on incorporating a metallic mesh into to carbon material to get rid of the heat. IMHO on a hunting rifle if you are firing so many rounds in a short span of time to overheat your barrel, there is something else wrong there. We will see if the mesh will help the competitive shooting world. I love my Proof Research in 6.5 PRC with the carbon wrapped barrel.
Eric, I'll repeat a question below. Do you have any thoughts on structured barrels? Ever had the chance to shoot one. I'm just wondering if they are really harmonically dead.
Great interview. So, I don't break in barrels, but have noticed they speed up and I have to go back to my load development. If you figure out why, please share. I wish Brux did drop ins for Remington,... No lathe yet.
I have a couple questions about the Brux barrels. First, do they chamber the barrels for the customer? Second, will you thread them for a brake or suppressor?
He has the equipment and a lot of info from this interview, when he said in a previous video he was bringing out more products the first thing I thought of was barrels.
@@CCW1911 There is a lot more equipment he'd need to build barrels, I also don't think he'd go into competition with one of his sponsors but maybe I'm wrong
@@taylorbokshowan5713 He just added on to his shop and added a DMG Mori NTX 2000, he will need some tooling but there is no reason he couldn't machine his own barrels with that machine. The question is would CNC machined barrels be as good as those made on the old Pratt and Whitney machines using the old methods? As a entrepreneur and businessman I doubt being sponsored would stop him from entering a market with that much backlog and earning potential.
Really good interview. I build hunting rifles exclusively. I use Scheider barrels most of the time. I am however going to start with a cut rifling barrel. Brux will be the one.
Was talking to my gunsmith today. Said he’s glad I ordered my barrel from brux when I did. Apparently lead times are crazy after erik brought more attention to the company
Do you import the Brux barrel into the UK, we never really see them much and most are using Bartlien There is also Benchmark coming in, But the Brux is hard to find, let me know Erik.
Erik, as to your question to back log and with you new found experience in machine tools I challenge you to look into the availability of a 1940’s Pratt and Whitney cut riffling machine. They are not made anymore and are exceptionally hard to find
Interesting.. I’m going to have to try a Brux barrel.I shoot HP rifle and usually go through white oaks.. I’ve only used Kreiger.. seems like it’s worth a try… I’ll put in my order and hopefully see it next year.. no hurry anyway,can’t get component’s to reload anyway
Erick, Painless question, LOL. Does Brux barrels also make custom dies chambered with the same reamer as the Custom Barrel they may make for ones Rifle? Or can they?
Eric, thank you for another fantastic interview. I have noticed though, in every one of them the person gets a phone call mid-interview....could those be rescue calls? :) Hmm, had a few dates that ended that way.
About new technologies: Bartlein´s MOD400 steel seems to last 1,5x longer in pressure testing barrels. The pressure testing companies keep a good log about shots so this should be true. The steel is harder to machine but it should make sense to use it even if your reamers would wear out 2x as fast. The Dracos barrels sound really special. A thin barrel is fitted with a aluminum sleeve. The inside is casted with a ceramic compound. In testing by an independent lab they found the barrels to last like 2x longer with full auto fire. The barrel wrap dissipates heat faster than a thick barrel and in theory they should last significantly longer than normal barrels. These barrels are claimed to be very stiff and accurate as well.
Yea me too Taylor, but I like the way Eric approaches precision, and I thought I saw his wheels turning when he was talking about how the custom barrel makers have failed to meet the market demand. I would build more rifles if it didn't take 6 months or more to get a good barrel. Eric strikes me as the kind of guy that would fix such a problem, or maybe it's just wishful thinking on my part.
Thanks guys. Great content. Erik I met you a few years back at Bayou & reloading class in Houston. Very knowledgeable & a pleasure to talk to. I just sent an email to Brux.
Break in is done to iron out the chamber reamer tool marks. The chamber is cut with a reamer after the barrel is made, so the lapping the barrel manufacture does doesn't touch the chamber reamer tool marks.
My question is at round 187 my last brux barrel reached speed or stopped speeding up i shoot PRS so I want my speed to be very consistent is this about the norm or does it vary
Years ago, probably 30 years ago, I talked to Boots Obermeyer and he was worried that all the skilled barrel makers were getting old and there was no one to carry on the trade. Was he correct?
Think of the metal in the barrel having microscopic peaks. As you shoot bullets down the barrel, it burnishes those peaks flatter. This creates more surface area and raises pressure. This is why the barrels speed up.
It's all about the grind on the cutting tool forming the rifling and uniformity providing the best finish. Every barrel maker out there can make a good one or not so good. Carbide button forming rifling can never match the precisian of cut rifling. ( Liljia can never be a choice for me)
Been dealing with Ken for 8yrs now . Only brand barrels i run on my two 1000yd benchrest rifles as well as the only brand I recommend. The cut extremely well, are always straight, lapped to perfection, and the only brand to this day that I never saw a dud come from them like I have from and others i will not mention, bartlein hurumph. Only other brand I liked as much was Lawton before Barney passed on from cancer.
