Red Leg Company

Red Leg Company 🔴 Redleg Company Chandler, MN
Precision rifle builds, custom gunsmithing, and load development for hunters and shooters across southwest Minnesota.

Founded by Brandon Lolkus, combat veteran and master gunsmith.
📞 507-677-6007 | [email protected]

PROOF Exponential Twist, released in May. Instead of one twist rate the whole way, it starts slow and speeds up down the...
08/26/2026

PROOF Exponential Twist, released in May. Instead of one twist rate the whole way, it starts slow and speeds up down the bore. The bullet gets eased into rotation instead of slammed into it at the throat. PROOF says about 30 percent less engraving force and 30 to 100 percent more barrel life. We will see.

The throat is where barrels die. This one is built to go easy on it, so we cut it a chamber that does the same. Then we made him a sizing die to match that chamber.

22 Creedmoor. ARC Coup de Grâce. PROOF PXT 1-8.

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We found a quarter inch group and threw it away on purpose.A customer handed us a brand new Browning A-Bolt 3 in 6.5 Cre...
08/21/2026

We found a quarter inch group and threw it away on purpose.

A customer handed us a brand new Browning A-Bolt 3 in 6.5 Creedmoor. He had never fired it. All he said was break in the barrel, put a scope and a can on it, load two hundred rounds for deer season, and make it shoot like the last one you built me.

We started with the bullet his old rifle liked. This rifle would not shoot it.

Ten load development sessions and eleven and a half hours of bench time later, session six gave us a quarter inch group with a standard deviation of 4.41. That is a very good number on a factory hunting rifle. Then the ten round confirmation blew the SD from 4.41 to 16.77, and a hot August day put pressure signs on a load that had been fine two weeks earlier.

So we walked away from our best group and built a different one. Six tenths of an inch, five shots, no pressure signs, and it repeats.

A rifle that shoots six tenths every time beats a rifle that shot a quarter inch once, and the second one will cost you an animal on the one day it decides not to.

We wrote up all ten sessions with the targets from every single one, including the four where it fell apart. If you load your own, it is a template you can run on your own rifle.

https://www.redlegguns.com/post/load-development-start-to-finish-ten-sessions-on-one-rifle

A customer shipped us a Weatherby Mark V from out of state. It was shooting about three inches at 100 yards and he was c...
08/13/2026

A customer shipped us a Weatherby Mark V from out of state. It was shooting about three inches at 100 yards and he was certain it needed a new barrel.

We tried six different factory loads first, because ammunition is the cheapest thing on a rifle to change. The best of them still printed about two and a half inches. So the ammunition was not the problem.

Then we ran the accuracy diagnostic. Forty one checks across the barrel, the bolt and action, the stock and bedding, the trigger, the scope and mounts, and the ammunition and dies. Thirty green. Five yellow. Zero red.

Nothing on that rifle was broken. It had just never been made to work as one system.

Cleaning, recrowning, lapping the lugs and bedding the stock and took it to eight tenths of an inch. Then we went back to the one yellow that never had a service attached to it, bedded the barrel at the forend, and it came down to about four tenths.

Same barrel it arrived with.

We published the whole report, prices and all, with the owner's name and serial number blacked out. Read it here:
https://www.redlegguns.com/post/do-you-actually-need-a-new-barrel-a-weatherby-mark-v-a-150-diagnostic-and-0-4-inches

A dad came to us with a problem worth solving. His boy is ten, and this October is his first deer season.Most of what ge...
08/11/2026

A dad came to us with a problem worth solving. His boy is ten, and this October is his first deer season.

Most of what gets handed to a kid that age is either too much gun or not enough cartridge.

So we built this instead. 6mm ARC on an AR-15. HUXWRX suppressor. Vortex glass in a Warne mount. Cerakoted top to bottom in Magpul FDE.

Here is the thinking behind it. Recoil is what teaches a young shooter to flinch, and a flinch is the hardest habit there is to unlearn. The 6 ARC gives him a real hunting cartridge with very little push. The suppressor brings the muzzle blast down to where he is not bracing for the noise before he ever breaks the shot. Put those two together and you get a kid who watches the animal through the shot instead of shutting his eyes.

Minnesota youth season runs October 15 through 18. He will be ready for it.

Built at the bench in Chandler, Minnesota.
https://www.redlegguns.com/services-offered

Your maximum point blank range is probably about 40 yards shorter than your ballistic app says.Not because the app is br...
08/06/2026

Your maximum point blank range is probably about 40 yards shorter than your ballistic app says.

Not because the app is broken. Because of what it is modeling.

Maximum point blank range is the best trick in hunting ballistics. Pick a circle you are willing to work with on the animal, say an 8 inch circle on a deer. Set your zero so the bullet peaks 4 inches high, and keep shooting until it falls 4 inches low. Anywhere inside that you hold dead center on the vitals and never touch a turret. One number to remember instead of a drop chart, which is worth a lot when your heart is going and the light is bad.

Here is the part nobody tells you. That math treats your bullet as one perfect line. Your rifle does not shoot a line. It shoots a cone that widens the farther out you go, and roughly half your shots land outside the line the app drew.

At the top of the arc and again at the far end, that line is already touching the edge of your 8 inch window. So half your rounds are through it.

I ran the numbers on one of our own 6.5 PRC builds. On paper it says 349 yards. For a rifle and shooter holding 1 MOA together, the honest answer is 308. At 2 MOA it is 268. The rifle did not change. The arithmetic just stopped pretending.

The fix takes ten seconds. Shrink the window by the size of your group at distance before you run the numbers.
https://www.redlegguns.com/post/how-to-zero-a-rifle-for-hunting-let-the-vital-zone-pick-your-zero
Full write up is on the site, along with how we zero at the bench, how many shots it actually takes, and a tall target test photographed start to finish.

.22 inches. Three shots at 100 yards. That works out to .21 MOA.Here is the rifle that did it, and here is the decision ...
08/04/2026

.22 inches. Three shots at 100 yards. That works out to .21 MOA.

Here is the rifle that did it, and here is the decision that made it possible.

Look at the barrel and you will see 1 in 7.5. That is the twist rate, and it is the single most important number on the whole rifle.

Twist rate is how far a bullet travels down the bore to make one complete rotation. 7.5 inches is fast for a 6mm. A fast twist spins a long, heavy for caliber bullet hard enough to keep it nose forward and stable all the way to the target. Put that same long bullet down a slow twist barrel and it starts to destabilize downrange, and your groups open up no matter how well the rest of the rifle is built. Twist gets chosen before the barrel is ever ordered. Get it wrong and you cannot fix it with better ammo.

Chambering is 6mm GT, running Lapua brass. Short, efficient case, mild recoil, and easy to watch your own impacts.

The rest of it: BAT Machine hardware, MDT ACC Elite chassis with an adjustable stock, Nightforce glass, ported muzzle brake, stainless barrel left bare the way it came off the lathe.

The Redleg diamond is engraved in the barrel. I put my mark on work I am willing to answer for.

👉 Custom builds, rebarrels and accuracy work. Ship in from anywhere or drop it off in Chandler, MN.
www.redlegguns.com
507-677-6007.

Two cartridges, one bullet diameter, and completely different rifles.First image is both drawn to scale. The .17 Re*****...
07/31/2026

Two cartridges, one bullet diameter, and completely different rifles.

First image is both drawn to scale. The .17 Re*****on is 2.150 inches overall on a .376 inch case head. The .17 HMR is 1.349 inches on a .238 inch rim. Same .172 bullet.

Second is the .17 Re*****on itself, loaded round standing with a fired case in front. Centerfire, past 4,000 fps, reloadable, and demanding about it.

Third is the .17 HMR beside its parent case, the .22 WMR. Rimfire, cheap to shoot, no reloading, deadly on pests inside about 150 yards.

One is a tool you buy. The other is a project you commit to. Full breakdown, including a customer's .17 Re*****on we built on an older Re*****on 700 action:

https://www.redlegguns.com/post/17-remington-vs-17-hmr-same-caliber-completely-different-rifles

One rifle. Two calibers. We built this quick-change barrel system to swap between 338 Lapua and 300 PRC, and each barrel...
07/28/2026

One rifle. Two calibers. We built this quick-change barrel system to swap between 338 Lapua and 300 PRC, and each barrel wears its own scope, zeroed and ready. Load development on the 300 PRC is on the bench right now. Built in-house in Chandler, MN.

https://www.redlegguns.com

When a Cerakote job peels, the coating almost never failed. The prep did.The finish you see is phase 9 of 9. The other e...
07/24/2026

When a Cerakote job peels, the coating almost never failed. The prep did.

The finish you see is phase 9 of 9. The other eight are the ones nobody photographs: disassembly, degrease, blast, mix by weight, spray wet, and cure on a schedule that depends on what the part is made of. A polymer frame and a steel barrel cannot go through the same oven cycle, and shops that treat them the same are why "budget Cerakote" has a reputation.

We just published the full process, phase by phase, plus a straight comparison against bluing, parkerizing, and anodizing, and real pricing.

If you want a finish that is still tight on the edges years from now, start here. Link below.

https://www.redlegguns.com/post/how-cerakote-works-the-9-phase-process-behind-a-finish-that-actually-lasts

Fresh off the bench. A 7mm Backcountry built on a Defiance TiX titanium action and a Proof Research carbon barrel, 16.5 ...
07/14/2026

Fresh off the bench. A 7mm Backcountry built on a Defiance TiX titanium action and a Proof Research carbon barrel, 16.5 inches with a 1-8 twist, wearing a Manners stock and set up to run suppressed.
The 7mm Backcountry is one of the new cartridges everybody's asking about this year. It's built to push heavy, high-BC 7mm bullets fast out of a short, backcountry-friendly barrel. On a titanium action with a carbon barrel, this is a rifle you can carry up a ridge all day and still trust at distance.
Here's the work that goes into one like this. We chambered the barrel true to the bore, threaded the muzzle on the same centerline so the suppressor sits straight, lapped the lugs for full contact, and bedded the action so it holds zero when the barrel heats up. That's the difference between a fast cartridge and a rifle that actually shoots.
This one's headed to its owner ready for load development and fall.
Thinking about a mountain rifle for next season? We book several weeks out. Give us a call at 507-677-6007.

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430 Main Street
Chandler, MN
56122

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Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm

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