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🔴 Redleg Company Chandler, MN
Precision r***e 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]

10/22/2026

Your kid shot a good group off the bench, so you figured he was ready. That is the thinking that gets a deer gut shot.

The bench proves a kid can run a r***e. It does not prove he can make a decision with his heart pounding.

Two 11 year olds (my son and nephew) took their first deer ten seconds apart out of the same blind this youth season. Here is the training that made it possible:

The stress drill, step by step, and why the r***e never leaves the tripod
The four word safety checklist they had to recite out of breath
Two quick checks for whether a r***e actually fits your kid

https://www.redlegguns.com/post/two-deer-in-ten-seconds-what-teaching-a-kid-to-deer-hunt-actually-takes

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10/12/2026

Everybody says you can see the difference in good glass. Almost nobody tells you what to look for.

So we photographed the faults one at a time, through the eyepiece, good and bad side by side.

Edge detail. Branches that stay separate all the way to the outside of the picture, against branches that go to mush in the outer third. Most people only ever check the center.

Shadow contrast. Bark texture you can still read inside the shade, against shadows that collapse to one flat gray.

Color fringing. A clean white tower edge against the sky, against a green line down one side and a red line down the other. Look at the edge, not the object.

These were shot down the eyepiece with a phone, so they show you the look of each fault, not a measurement. Once you have seen them you will spot them at a gun counter.

https://www.redlegguns.com/post/r***e-scope-glass-quality-expensive-vs-good-glass

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10/08/2026

The stamp on this barrel reads 1-7.5 twist. That is not the twist the bullet meets first.

It is a Proof Research PXT, and the XT stands for Exponential Twist. Proof starts the rifling somewhere around 1 turn in 250 to 500 inches at the chamber end and tightens it as the bullet runs down the bore, so the bullet gets eased into rotation instead of slammed into it. By the muzzle it is spinning at 1-7.5. Proof publishes that the profile cuts engraving force by about 30 percent.

Customer brought us the barrel. We chambered it, fitted it, threaded the muzzle 5/8-24 for his Dead Air can and bedded the action.

Defiance action, AG Composites stock, Timney trigger, Leupold VX-6HD.

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09/30/2026

Last week we published every scope ring torque number we could find. This week it is four pages you can print.

Forty-one ring and mount makers. Twenty-six scope makers. Nineteen r***es. The thread chart for when nobody publishes a number. And the two rules on page one that decide everything else: the lower number wins, and thread locker means come down 15 percent.

It is free. Print it, put it next to the wrench, and stop guessing.

https://www.redlegguns.com/free-torque-chart

09/23/2026

Your scope maker publishes a torque limit for the tube. Your ring maker publishes a number for the cap screws. They are answering two different questions, and they often disagree.

Vortex says 15 to 18 on every scope they build. Leupold rings are marked 25 to 28. Put one in the other and torque to the rings, and you are ten inch-pounds past what the tube is rated for. A calibrated wrench does not save you from that. Knowing which number wins does.

We collected every published figure we could find. Forty-one ring and mount makers. Twenty-six scope makers. Nineteen r***es. Plus what thread locker does to the number, and how we actually mount a scope at the bench.

https://www.redlegguns.com/post/scope-ring-torque-specs-from-every-maker-and-how-to-mount-a-scope

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09/11/2026

He did not bring the r***e in because it was a bad r***e. He brought it in because it used to be a good one.

A factory .243 that shot half-MOA opened up to 2 to 3 inches, with shots walking all over the paper. Before we touched anything we put a shop scope on it and shot it. It grouped.

The rings came off in pieces. Both keepers snapped. The scope tube measured 0.988 where the ring sat and 1.001 an inch away. Thirteen thousandths of crush from a wrench that never clicked.

New barrel? No. Here is the whole job, the caliper, and the graded report: https://www.redlegguns.com/post/from-half-moa-to-3-inches-the-scope-rings-did-it

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09/04/2026

He didn't ask for a faster twist. He asked for lighter bullets.

That one sentence decided this whole build. Almost every .243 going out the door now is fast-twist, because heavy high-BC bullets are what everybody talks about. This owner wanted light and fast, so we put a 1-10 on it instead.

Factory Hornady 58 grain V-MAX: 3,777 fps, and a 0.413 inch group at 100 yards. That is 0.39 MOA, out of a semi-auto, with a can on it.

Full write-up, including how the gas got tuned: https://www.redlegguns.com/post/3-777-fps-from-a-243-ar-10-twist-rate-gas-and-a-barrel-that-never-came

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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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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 r***e liked. This r***e 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 r***e. 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 r***e that shoots six tenths every time beats a r***e 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 r***e.

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

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 am******on is the cheapest thing on a r***e to change. The best of them still printed about two and a half inches. So the am******on 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 am******on and dies. Thirty green. Five yellow. Zero red.

Nothing on that r***e 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

Address

430 Main Street
Chandler, MN
56122

Opening Hours

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

Telephone

+15076776007

Website

https://www.redlegguns.com/

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