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Everybody has a story. Everybody’s story is interesting to me. I spent 35 years running up and down the highways of Canada and America collecting stories, delivering freight, and reading books. Over 3000 books. Truckloads of magazines. And vocalizations. Thousands and thousands of conversations. The easiest way to learn something - if you can keep yer own trap shut - is to ask a person what they know besides what their job is. Put yer teeth and lips together, yer butt in a chair, and grab …

Ten competitive shooting years have flown by quicker’n a November goose headed outta Canada for the gulf. Rifles have gotten heavier’n lighter, perfect cartridges have arrived, bags have morphed, glass has been clarified, folks have come and gone. The amount of innovation/invention in the shooting world has accelerated at a rate that the old guys are boggled and the juniors are oblivious. But the old guys can still shoot and the youngster’s proficiency exceeds their mentor&rsqu …

It’s not a dog. Doesn’t look like one. Doesn’t shoot like one. But it followed me to work today like a dog. A lot of youngsters, mid-sters and old-sters, too, shy away when there’s work to be done. Not this rifle, though. Last shooter at a meatball stage? Let’s go! First in the squad to shoot into the rising sun? Do it! Why combine these parts into one unit? Funny you should ask . . . A couple of years ago Kent - badly - wanted the action I was using, so I swapped h …

Sliding down the hallway, through the door it fell prostrate on my table, just inside the door. Dang near light enough to be a sho ‘nuff hunting rifle, it was built for/as a PRS Open competition gun, back in the day. It reminded me of a conversation I had with Morgun King this spring. We were talking about the guns that we used when we started. Like this light little feller at 15.4 pounds. Josh Halligan once handed me his 17 pound Master Piece Arms chassis-ed 6mmX47 Lapua rifle, while caut …

By Les Voth - Bix'n Andy USA Have you been properly “braked”? Before my introduction to PRS competition I was dead set against brakes. I never owned one. I never even used one until I shot a Thompson Encore in 300 Winchester Magnum with a JP Howitzer Brake installed. That was the extent of my “braking” experience.  That Howitzer brake proved the effectiveness and usefulness of shooting with a brake, but my shooting comrades that day threatened my wellbeing if I ever …