Ep. 105 | Barrels – The Most Important Part of Your Gun?

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🗓️ 30 December 2019

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Ian Klemm, previous guest from some some of our most popular podcasts of all time in the Long Range series, joins Mark and Jimmy to talk all about barrels. Are these the most important parts of your gun? Why are there so many different kinds? Materials, fluting, twist rates, types of rifling, lengths, coatings, tuning, free floating, the list goes on and on! Ian discusses all these topics in-depth in the way only a mega-genius gun-nerd engineer could. Whether you’re looking for a barrel to complete your ultra-custom long range rifle or simply want to know what all the hubbub is around these things, this podcast is perfect for all you gun nuts! As always, we want to hear your feedback! Let us know if there are any topics you'd like covered on the Vortex Nation podcast by asking us on Instagram @vortexnationpodcast

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Vortex Nation podcast brought to you by lovers of hunting, shooting, public lands, the Second Amendment and Good Food. What's up everybody? We have Mr. Ian Clem back with us today.
0:23.5	Ian, this is a special episode, I think,
0:27.1	because for a couple of reasons, this one's,
0:29.4	I feel this near and dear in my heart.
0:31.2	One, your first episode back since we've crossed 100 episodes, so that's pretty neat. Two, we are going to be discussing barrels. Now, you gave us a little bit of a preview when we were in some of our long-range
0:44.8	podcast, you know, I think that last one that you were at was the, well we were talking
0:48.8	about F-class and E-L-R and you talked about barrel tuning so that's you know that's one thing in and of itself but barrels we're here
0:56.7	actually podcasting from probably the barrel belt I've heard it oh yeah barrel mecca
1:01.9	this is an epicenter. Now, can you even just go into that
1:05.2	real quickly? So we're in Wisconsin and barrel makers abound here.
1:10.9	Yeah, so I feel really a little bit like a faker because I'm here being some
1:17.7	subject matter expert on barrels and we live in a place where you like you turn
1:21.1	over a rock and there's going to be a barrel maker.
1:22.8	Like if you say, oh I know about barrels you should be able to make a barrel from Play-Doh and
1:28.8	Cornstarch and a pipe cleaner and stuff like that.
1:32.4	And if you can't then you should get out of Wisconsin.
1:35.0	Something like that. But no, I think there were a couple really influential leaders in
1:42.2	barrel manufacturing back in the day. influential leaders in
1:48.4	back in the day guys like Boats Obermeyer you might have heard of that name or John Krieger Oh yeah so you know they have these apprentices that they take in and they pass a lot of knowledge and, you know, maybe some old gun drill machines or rifling machines come up for auction. They're hard to find, they're over 100 years old,
2:05.2	but now they're available. Maybe one of these apprentices decides to go it on their own and
2:09.2	start their own shop and kind of forge their own path with what they've learned. So I have a feeling that's kind of forged their own path with what they've learned.
2:13.0	So I have a feeling that's kind of why you see so many barrel manufacturers in Wisconsin.
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