Selling pre-fit barrels, sounds easy right? But what is pre-fit? Is it just a chambering in the barrel or is it a chambering headspaced to certain tolerances that will fit in most rifles, leaving room plus or minus so the vast majority will work? But how is that better than a chamber cut to specific and exact tolerances to match your receiver? Wouldn't that be more accurate? Let's say you have a new barrel. What chamber do you decide to cut into? You know that with any chambering, once done it is like a tattoo that can never be changed or removed. Whether you like it or not, the chamber is now a permanent partner to that barrel. So you wrestle with the decision of what 6.5 caliber chamber to cut into your 6.5 rifled barrel. You only get one choice, one option, one swing and it's permanent. "So what" you say! "That is just the way it is, has been and will be forever". Wait for it..................... not anymore! There is an alternative and better option!What is a universal barrel? It is a barrel ready to build with all the machining done to accept any caliber from that family of cartridges. Not a pre-fit, but a perfect fit to any chamber you would like to put on it. Have chamber remorse? We can fix that. We can take your 6.5 Creedmoor chamber off your universal barrel and put a 6.5PRC on it. Pre-fit - Nope, a perfect fit. Any other builder or gunsmith have this option? We don't think so. Would it be a nice option to have, though? We think so. When it all matters!Making a 1/2 MOA rifle is not hard to do with the quality of components on the market today. Things can be left go to the "acceptable" tolerances of most builders and manufacturers. But, when you are looking for that rifle that will perform over and over again and at a higher level, think sub 1/2 moa or a true quarter MOA capable rifle, then this all matters! Not just the the finished perfect part, but the perfected processes and details that go far beyond the average builder's passion that most will simply walk away at the start of this conversation. Think about a $500,000 machine. Capable right? Yes! Fallible by humans, of course. But, a sub 1/2 moa rifle has as much to do with the perfected process as it does with the perfect machine!
It is not just having a world class machine tool, it goes well beyond that. It gets into the set up of the barrel, the jigging, the custom tooling, the custom fixtures, the custom holders and even custom spindle bore liners, each made by hand to support the barrel opposite of what is being machined. When you are trying to make the perfect rifle over and over again, this is the level of attention that goes on behind the curtain makes all the difference and where average and the best part ways. Making a true sub .5 MOA rifle is not by accident or luck. It is 100% on purpose with a commitment to accept nothing less. So we don't take it lightly announcing something like a Universal Barrel. It's not a tag line, a sales pitch or play on words. To make this possible, the workings behind the scenes resembles the thought, care, passions and technical know-how that one would think we where designing rockets. But in same strange way, isn't that what we are doing? Isn't that the approach you would want to be taken? That level of expertise, passion and commitment from the team and to the end user. Pre-fit can be found with fittings at a hardware store, but perfect is intentional, every time!
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Jamie DodsonPresident of Wolf Precision and inventor of the ACE. Archives
December 2024
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