The Voyeur's Guide to Barrel Chambering - Postscript

The Voyeur's Guide to Barrel Chambering - Postscript

by Germán A. Salazar

We've had a lot of email and commentary from readers regarding the Voyeur's Guide to Barrel Chambering series of articles, and John and I are very gratified that it was so well received. Hopefully we'll find another topic or two to cover in a similar fashion.

This past weekend (November 19-20, 2011) I competed in the Arizona Long Range State Championship (1000 yd.) using the barrel featured in the series. I was shooting in the F-TR category in deference to my still recovering shoulder, and it was my first F-Class match at 1000 yards.

To make a long story short, over two days of shooting, 1200 possible points in typical windy Arizona desert conditions, I won five of the six stages, was second in one stage by three X's and won the F-TR aggregate by a fairly wide margin. I also finished ahead of all the F-Open competitors except the winner Dave Gosnell who beat me by an large margin.  I don't have a copy of the final results in front of me, so I don't want to quote exact numbers.



John Lowther and Oliver Milanovic

 I say this not to brag, we all know that there's no real glory in this sport, but to emphasize that John's work was second to none in the results it produced. As we said in the article, there are many ways for a machinist to approach the various tasks involved in producing a good barrel chambering job and I am more than satisfied that John's approach is the right one for me.