Best line of the whole interview in regards to barrel break in! Eric - But do they really need to? Ken - ...... No. I loved it Eric, thank you so much for everything you do for the shooting community!
I just screwed on a Brux barrel on my FTR rig and the first shot out of the barrel was dead on bulls eye. I was impressed. This is gonna be a good one I think. I hope Norman is passing on all his knowledge for future generations. It sounds like he IS the business. Thanks Erik.
Fantastic Interview! Great stuff Erik! Best Part - 46:38 - On "Barrel Break-In" Erik: Do they really have to do that? (Shoot, clean, shoot, clean) Ken: No, but it gives people confidence. (Makes them feel better.) I cackled just like Erik. I'm sold. Honest old school owner on the front side, mad scientist old school owner making magic in the back, 5 employees, hand lapped, single point cut rifled. Works for me. I'm going to try a Brux on my next 6mm project. I have 3 Kriegers and 3 X-Calibers. Time to expand the stable. I think the quality of a Brux is probably right there with Krieger or Bartlein but without the 14 month wait.
Ive ran about them all and all i run on both my 1000yd benchrifles as well as order for customers are Brux. Never saw a dud from them like i have from kreiger and as far as Bartlein they are the last i would ever buy after my experience with the last dozen or so people came in with to have chambered and threaded
Now I have 7 weeks and 54 minutes to wait for my barrel. LOL I greatly enjoyed this video. It's great to hear how much care is going into the fabrication of my barrels. It makes the wait a little easier. Thanks guys.
Thanks Erik, another great interview. Your channel may be the best platform for answering the question "why do barrels speed up". Looking forward to you "figuring that out".
Thank you for doing these interviews! I learn something every time I watch one. I hope to see the barrel making process, from start to finish, in person, some day!
Parker Ackley made barrels back in the day, he made 3 and 5 and 7 groove barrels and claimed an odd numbers of riflings worked best. He used to say "A 3 legged bar stool doesn't rock on the floor". I think of all the barrels i have chambered and shot in 6mm i have had the best luck with 3. groove barrels. i've put on a ton of Brux barrels over the years and have never had a dud and they last longer than other barrels do and clean up nicely and shoot awesome. They are my #1 go to barrel.
I love my Brux Barrels. Great quality. Ken and Norm, and all their machines are fantastic. I had six rifles rebarreled this past year. All shoot sub MOA. Norm is a genius, barrels are more than perfection.
Appears to me that Brux has adopted the ways of whom I consider the greatest barrel maker of all time Harry Pope! Harry’s barrels were untouchable as far as accuracy goes just like Brux barrels are today!
I bought a Brux barrel and Borden action a year ago because of you ERIK.. I almost went with Shilen Barrels because my AR15 has a Shilen barrel; and its by far the most Accurate AR15 Im own.Its a Ratchett groove. IThe Brux and Borden & SEB Rest has helped my shooting alot. .I ordered a V4 Auto Trickler and scale.I cant spend $4K on the Prometheus yet.Im not that good yet.Im working on it thougjh.Great Video Thank you and Mr Ken Clemens
I have a Brux that I had chambered in 338 Norma. I have a Christensen Mesa Long Range that was originally a 338 Lapua, and I was never really happy with its consistency.. After rebareling it with my Brux, it HAMMERS. Very happy with it. It won’t be my last one either.
Thanks guys. Great content. Erik I met you a few years back at Bayou & reloading class in Houston. Very knowledgeable & a pleasure to talk to. I just sent an email to Brux.
Brux makes flat out awesome barrels. I help a gunsmith from ashland va. With smokeless muzzleloaders. 325gr pills @ 3200fps. With amazing accuracy. Sub 1/3 moa is the norm. He only uses Brux barrels and goes through 100s of them. Most of my really good rifles have brux barrels
Break in is done to iron out the chamber reamer tool marks. The chamber is cut with a reamer after the barrel is made, so the lapping the barrel manufacture does doesn't touch the chamber reamer tool marks.
Really good interview. I build hunting rifles exclusively. I use Scheider barrels most of the time. I am however going to start with a cut rifling barrel. Brux will be the one.
Was talking to my gunsmith today. Said he’s glad I ordered my barrel from brux when I did. Apparently lead times are crazy after erik brought more attention to the company
Very informative! Except for accuracy, what makes a competition barrel better than like you said it is only my PRS barrel? The manufacturing process stays the same, does it come down to the profile or what?
Interesting.. I’m going to have to try a Brux barrel.I shoot HP rifle and usually go through white oaks.. I’ve only used Kreiger.. seems like it’s worth a try… I’ll put in my order and hopefully see it next year.. no hurry anyway,can’t get component’s to reload anyway
About new technologies: Bartlein´s MOD400 steel seems to last 1,5x longer in pressure testing barrels. The pressure testing companies keep a good log about shots so this should be true. The steel is harder to machine but it should make sense to use it even if your reamers would wear out 2x as fast. The Dracos barrels sound really special. A thin barrel is fitted with a aluminum sleeve. The inside is casted with a ceramic compound. In testing by an independent lab they found the barrels to last like 2x longer with full auto fire. The barrel wrap dissipates heat faster than a thick barrel and in theory they should last significantly longer than normal barrels. These barrels are claimed to be very stiff and accurate as well.
Great interview. So, I don't break in barrels, but have noticed they speed up and I have to go back to my load development. If you figure out why, please share. I wish Brux did drop ins for Remington,... No lathe yet.
Erik, as to your question to back log and with you new found experience in machine tools I challenge you to look into the availability of a 1940’s Pratt and Whitney cut riffling machine. They are not made anymore and are exceptionally hard to find
I have a couple questions about the Brux barrels. First, do they chamber the barrels for the customer? Second, will you thread them for a brake or suppressor?
Eric, thank you for another fantastic interview. I have noticed though, in every one of them the person gets a phone call mid-interview....could those be rescue calls? :) Hmm, had a few dates that ended that way.
Been dealing with Ken for 8yrs now . Only brand barrels i run on my two 1000yd benchrest rifles as well as the only brand I recommend. The cut extremely well, are always straight, lapped to perfection, and the only brand to this day that I never saw a dud come from them like I have from and others i will not mention, bartlein hurumph. Only other brand I liked as much was Lawton before Barney passed on from cancer.
Eric I have a question. I have owned many different custom barrels over the years and have wondered do these custom barrel makers ever take a shot out barrel and redrill rerifle to a larger caliber?
Eric, I'll repeat a question below. Do you have any thoughts on structured barrels? Ever had the chance to shoot one. I'm just wondering if they are really harmonically dead.
Do you import the Brux barrel into the UK, we never really see them much and most are using Bartlien There is also Benchmark coming in, But the Brux is hard to find, let me know Erik.
Can someone advise. I have Tikka t3 1:10 twist. I paper-punch hornady ammo. Which weight will stabilise best out to 400 yrds: 100gr sp at 2900's fps or 87 gr bt at over 3000 fps?
Boss i have a question if we put custom barrel on cz 600 can it produce 20 shot accuracy in 5 minus shooting ? I hope you understand im sorry for my english
Crazy that he mentioned McWhorter rifles there local to me, home of the $6,000 hunting rifle, they sell a bunch of rifles for people that have plenty money to burn on deer rifles
I guess if you don’t have a big name Brux doesn’t want to talk to you . I have e-mailed them twice with no response. By the way Erik I will be sending for another control comp for the end of my muzzle. They work great. Thank you.
Think of the metal in the barrel having microscopic peaks. As you shoot bullets down the barrel, it burnishes those peaks flatter. This creates more surface area and raises pressure. This is why the barrels speed up.
He has the equipment and a lot of info from this interview, when he said in a previous video he was bringing out more products the first thing I thought of was barrels.
@@CCW1911 There is a lot more equipment he'd need to build barrels, I also don't think he'd go into competition with one of his sponsors but maybe I'm wrong
@@taylorbokshowan5713 He just added on to his shop and added a DMG Mori NTX 2000, he will need some tooling but there is no reason he couldn't machine his own barrels with that machine. The question is would CNC machined barrels be as good as those made on the old Pratt and Whitney machines using the old methods? As a entrepreneur and businessman I doubt being sponsored would stop him from entering a market with that much backlog and earning potential.
Erick, Painless question, LOL. Does Brux barrels also make custom dies chambered with the same reamer as the Custom Barrel they may make for ones Rifle? Or can they?
Bergara is working on incorporating a metallic mesh into to carbon material to get rid of the heat. IMHO on a hunting rifle if you are firing so many rounds in a short span of time to overheat your barrel, there is something else wrong there. We will see if the mesh will help the competitive shooting world. I love my Proof Research in 6.5 PRC with the carbon wrapped barrel.
My question is at round 187 my last brux barrel reached speed or stopped speeding up i shoot PRS so I want my speed to be very consistent is this about the norm or does it vary
Years ago, probably 30 years ago, I talked to Boots Obermeyer and he was worried that all the skilled barrel makers were getting old and there was no one to carry on the trade. Was he correct?
Carbon barrels are a PITA to tune the loads . Dont do it Eric !!! Theres nothing wrong with a pencil hunting barrel set up for a cold bore shot !!! Skip the flutes too and just go lighter . If that bothers you put a tuner on it . It will Shoot !!!
If the object is built in mm work must be done in mm; conversely if it is built in inches work must be done in inches. the conversions induce error and there are some real horror stories if you don't,
Yea me too Taylor, but I like the way Eric approaches precision, and I thought I saw his wheels turning when he was talking about how the custom barrel makers have failed to meet the market demand. I would build more rifles if it didn't take 6 months or more to get a good barrel. Eric strikes me as the kind of guy that would fix such a problem, or maybe it's just wishful thinking on my part.
`HEY bRUX bARRELS ONE MORE TIME. I HAVE A 7-08 BARREL ON A REM 700 ACTION THAT I would like to change. Do you have any 28 inch stainless, 1/7 twist, heavy varmit barrels that you could send to me ???
Best line of the whole interview in regards to barrel break in!
Eric - But do they really need to?
Ken - ...... No.
I loved it Eric, thank you so much for everything you do for the shooting community!
Eric, you are amazing. You basically walk-through the entire manufacturing process of arguably, one of the the best barrel maker. excellent job.
I just screwed on a Brux barrel on my FTR rig and the first shot out of the barrel was dead on bulls eye. I was impressed. This is gonna be a good one I think. I hope Norman is passing on all his knowledge for future generations. It sounds like he IS the business. Thanks Erik.
I love these small companies that are on top of their trade. Just specialties very few people can make. That’s awesome. Thanks Eric for sharing this
Fantastic Interview! Great stuff Erik!
Best Part - 46:38 - On "Barrel Break-In"
Erik: Do they really have to do that? (Shoot, clean, shoot, clean)
Ken: No, but it gives people confidence. (Makes them feel better.)
I cackled just like Erik.
I'm sold. Honest old school owner on the front side, mad scientist old school owner making magic in the back, 5 employees, hand lapped, single point cut rifled. Works for me.
I'm going to try a Brux on my next 6mm project. I have 3 Kriegers and 3 X-Calibers.
Time to expand the stable. I think the quality of a Brux is probably right there with Krieger or Bartlein but without the 14 month wait.
Ive ran about them all and all i run on both my 1000yd benchrifles as well as order for customers are Brux. Never saw a dud from them like i have from kreiger and as far as Bartlein they are the last i would ever buy after my experience with the last dozen or so people came in with to have chambered and threaded
I ordered a barrel about a year ago because of Erik. Love it!
Now I have 7 weeks and 54 minutes to wait for my barrel. LOL
I greatly enjoyed this video. It's great to hear how much care is going into the fabrication of my barrels. It makes the wait a little easier. Thanks guys.
Very happy with Brux and Kens service has been fantastic. Will be getting more into Canada in the future.
I love brux barrels! All the one's I've had. shot amazing in my service rifles.
Thanks Erik, another great interview. Your channel may be the best platform for answering the question "why do barrels speed up". Looking forward to you "figuring that out".
Thank you for doing these interviews! I learn something every time I watch one. I hope to see the barrel making process, from start to finish, in person, some day!
Parker Ackley made barrels back in the day, he made 3 and 5 and 7 groove barrels and claimed an odd numbers of riflings worked best. He used to say "A 3 legged bar stool doesn't rock on the floor". I think of all the barrels i have chambered and shot in 6mm i have had the best luck with 3. groove barrels. i've put on a ton of Brux barrels over the years and have never had a dud and they last longer than other barrels do and clean up nicely and shoot awesome. They are my #1 go to barrel.
I love my Brux Barrels. Great quality. Ken and Norm, and all their machines are fantastic. I had six rifles rebarreled this past year. All shoot sub MOA. Norm is a genius, barrels are more than perfection.
only sub MOA? shouldn't world record setting barrel perform better?
Brux makes a darn good barrel. Two of my bench rifles wear Brux. Love em no doubt.
I’ve had a good number of various barrels but I’ve had two 7mm 1-8 barrels and so far they are the two most impressive barrels I’ve had so far.
Great interview. Love the technical interviews.
Been shooting brux for years and they are amazing, love my 250-3000 brux barrel
What s 250-3000 if you don't mind me asking
@@treece1 250 savage, a round from the 40s , same brass as 22-250 with 25 caliber bullet
Appears to me that Brux has adopted the ways of whom I consider the greatest barrel maker of all time Harry Pope! Harry’s barrels were untouchable as far as accuracy goes just like Brux barrels are today!
Harry Pope tested barrels off hand at 200 YRDS. 25 shot groups about 2 inches.
Try a heart ❤️ barrel! That's what I prefer
I bought a Brux barrel and Borden action a year ago because of you ERIK.. I almost went with Shilen Barrels because my AR15 has a Shilen barrel; and its by far the most Accurate AR15 Im own.Its a Ratchett groove. IThe Brux and Borden & SEB Rest has helped my shooting alot. .I ordered a V4 Auto Trickler and scale.I cant spend $4K on the Prometheus yet.Im not that good yet.Im working on it thougjh.Great Video Thank you and Mr Ken Clemens
I have a Brux that I had chambered in 338 Norma. I have a Christensen Mesa Long Range that was originally a 338 Lapua, and I was never really happy with its consistency.. After rebareling it with my Brux, it HAMMERS. Very happy with it. It won’t be my last one either.
I'm having my 6.5 PRC rebarreld this week! Mine is a CA mesa long action. I'm having a 26" Brux 1-8
Thanks guys. Great content. Erik I met you a few years back at Bayou & reloading class in Houston. Very knowledgeable & a pleasure to talk to. I just sent an email to Brux.
On top of just being cool people, Ken and his crew make an awesome barrel.
Thank you.
"Why 4 Grove?" "Because it works" 😂 how do you argue with that....
“YEP!”
Brux makes flat out awesome barrels. I help a gunsmith from ashland va. With smokeless muzzleloaders. 325gr pills @ 3200fps. With amazing accuracy. Sub 1/3 moa is the norm. He only uses Brux barrels and goes through 100s of them. Most of my really good rifles have brux barrels
My gunsmith has received the ss fluted brux!! Just waiting for action.. I'm vary excited to see how my first custom rifle shoots
Man I'm so excited for you. I dream of the day, but until then I live vicariously through you folks!
Break in is done to iron out the chamber reamer tool marks. The chamber is cut with a reamer after the barrel is made, so the lapping the barrel manufacture does doesn't touch the chamber reamer tool marks.
Really good interview. I build hunting rifles exclusively. I use Scheider barrels most of the time. I am however going to start with a cut rifling barrel. Brux will be the one.
Was talking to my gunsmith today.
Said he’s glad I ordered my barrel from brux when I did.
Apparently lead times are crazy after erik brought more attention to the company
Just found out a Brux barrel was used to set a 600 yard record. Wish I knew that years ago? Thank you.
Awesome- Brux Barell, Borden Action, Cerus Stock… must have!
Thanks Ken for information !
Used a Brux smokeless muzzleloader barrel from Arrowhead rifles. Incredible accuracy out of a .458 cal.
Very informative! Except for accuracy, what makes a competition barrel better than like you said it is only my PRS barrel? The manufacturing process stays the same, does it come down to the profile or what?
Interesting.. I’m going to have to try a Brux barrel.I shoot HP rifle and usually go through white oaks.. I’ve only used Kreiger.. seems like it’s worth a try… I’ll put in my order and hopefully see it next year.. no hurry anyway,can’t get component’s to reload anyway
About new technologies:
Bartlein´s MOD400 steel seems to last 1,5x longer in pressure testing barrels. The pressure testing companies keep a good log about shots so this should be true. The steel is harder to machine but it should make sense to use it even if your reamers would wear out 2x as fast.
The Dracos barrels sound really special. A thin barrel is fitted with a aluminum sleeve. The inside is casted with a ceramic compound. In testing by an independent lab they found the barrels to last like 2x longer with full auto fire. The barrel wrap dissipates heat faster than a thick barrel and in theory they should last significantly longer than normal barrels. These barrels are claimed to be very stiff and accurate as well.
My question is Eric beings you are a brux team member do you have to pay for your barrels or are they supplied to you by brux?
Great interview. So, I don't break in barrels, but have noticed they speed up and I have to go back to my load development. If you figure out why, please share. I wish Brux did drop ins for Remington,... No lathe yet.
I have a Brux on my custom 45 cal muzzleloader. It shoots great!
Norman needs to read the "Lee" Iacocca's book about cross training personnel and vacations etc.
Erik, as to your question to back log and with you new found experience in machine tools I challenge you to look into the availability of a 1940’s Pratt and Whitney cut riffling machine.
They are not made anymore and are exceptionally hard to find
Same as in Hornady podcast, it was great but they didn’t want to mention the cleaning brands to avoid
Most of the time, more is just more ; it doesn't mean better, probably "more" than half the time 😑🤙 Thanks Erik ‼️
I have a couple questions about the Brux barrels. First, do they chamber the barrels for the customer? Second, will you thread them for a brake or suppressor?
Eric, thank you for another fantastic interview. I have noticed though, in every one of them the person gets a phone call mid-interview....could those be rescue calls? :) Hmm, had a few dates that ended that way.
The gun industry is wide open for quality companies.
Waiting on my new Brux for my custom sporter I’m having built 😃! Pretty dang excited I must say.
Btw loved the video. Pretty funny at parts too lol.
Been dealing with Ken for 8yrs now . Only brand barrels i run on my two 1000yd benchrest rifles as well as the only brand I recommend. The cut extremely well, are always straight, lapped to perfection, and the only brand to this day that I never saw a dud come from them like I have from and others i will not mention, bartlein hurumph. Only other brand I liked as much was Lawton before Barney passed on from cancer.
So they don’t stress relieve them? I have several Brux barrels.
Eric I have a question. I have owned many different custom barrels over the years and have wondered do these custom barrel makers ever take a shot out barrel and redrill rerifle to a larger caliber?
Eric, I'll repeat a question below. Do you have any thoughts on structured barrels? Ever had the chance to shoot one. I'm just wondering if they are really harmonically dead.
Has the price gone up
Do you import the Brux barrel into the UK, we never really see them much and most are using Bartlien
There is also Benchmark coming in, But the Brux is hard to find, let me know Erik.
Can someone advise.
I have Tikka t3 1:10 twist. I paper-punch hornady ammo.
Which weight will stabilise best out to 400 yrds: 100gr sp at 2900's fps or 87 gr bt at over 3000 fps?
Hey Eric. What barrel contour do you use for match rifles?
Boss i have a question if we put custom barrel on cz 600 can it produce 20 shot accuracy in 5 minus shooting ? I hope you understand im sorry for my english
Been trying to get a Brux bbl for yrs here in the UK, Cmon man send them over
Whats the lead time for 50 barrels to UK
Put the 5.5 contour specs on your website! 😊
Why the back log ken? Because quality is more important then anything else
Crazy that he mentioned McWhorter rifles there local to me, home of the $6,000 hunting rifle, they sell a bunch of rifles for people that have plenty money to burn on deer rifles
They can save money on super market meats
I can only hope to be lucky enough to get 1 or even on the list. 🤪
I guess if you don’t have a big name Brux doesn’t want to talk to you . I have e-mailed them twice with no response. By the way Erik I will be sending for another control comp for the end of my muzzle. They work great. Thank you.
Think of the metal in the barrel having microscopic peaks. As you shoot bullets down the barrel, it burnishes those peaks flatter. This creates more surface area and raises pressure. This is why the barrels speed up.
When you going to start making barrels Eric? If you do I want to be first on the list.
I really doubt it
He has the equipment and a lot of info from this interview, when he said in a previous video he was bringing out more products the first thing I thought of was barrels.
@@CCW1911 There is a lot more equipment he'd need to build barrels, I also don't think he'd go into competition with one of his sponsors but maybe I'm wrong
@@taylorbokshowan5713 He just added on to his shop and added a DMG Mori NTX 2000, he will need some tooling but there is no reason he couldn't machine his own barrels with that machine. The question is would CNC machined barrels be as good as those made on the old Pratt and Whitney machines using the old methods? As a entrepreneur and businessman I doubt being sponsored would stop him from entering a market with that much backlog and earning potential.
Im running a 4groove hammerforged barrel. Just drives tacks !!
I'm a little surprised you didn't ask him what CLR does to a barrel
I was hopping the same
@@nathanielgray4235 I did hear him say keep it mild when cleaning CLR witch I use for carbon isn't mild for sure but its not ammonia.
When he said “here's something that's going to make you cringe” I thought that's where he was going!
What action do they make barrels for?
Erick, Painless question, LOL. Does Brux barrels also make custom dies chambered with the same reamer as the Custom Barrel they may make for ones Rifle? Or can they?
Bergara is working on incorporating a metallic mesh into to carbon material to get rid of the heat. IMHO on a hunting rifle if you are firing so many rounds in a short span of time to overheat your barrel, there is something else wrong there. We will see if the mesh will help the competitive shooting world. I love my Proof Research in 6.5 PRC with the carbon wrapped barrel.
Lots of people hunt and PRS with the same rifle…
Re-use barrels by re-machining to larger caliber?
Does Brux make a 22lr version?
I am sure at 17:30, that he is talking about 5 tenths. To a machinist, at barrel dimensions, 5 thousandths might as well be a mile.
"Do they really have to do that?" ...pause... "Nooooo..." 😂
My question is at round 187 my last brux barrel reached speed or stopped speeding up i shoot PRS so I want my speed to be very consistent is this about the norm or does it vary
Eric, what are your thoughts on "structured barrels"?
Mark and Sam after work have a very honest review.
@@taylorbokshowan5713 i would be interested in hearing the review
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Years ago, probably 30 years ago, I talked to Boots Obermeyer and he was worried that all the skilled barrel makers were getting old and there was no one to carry on the trade. Was he correct?
“Always two there are - a master and an apprentice.”
Carbon barrels are a PITA to tune the loads . Dont do it Eric !!! Theres nothing wrong with a pencil hunting barrel set up for a cold bore shot !!! Skip the flutes too and just go lighter . If that bothers you put a tuner on it . It will Shoot !!!
My future 6.8 western f open gun may just have become Brux barreled If I ever make it happen.
from a material cutting stress perspective the fewer the grooves the better.
If the object is built in mm work must be done in mm; conversely if it is built in inches work must be done in inches. the conversions induce error and there are some real horror stories if you don't,
Tight bore questions?
Yup, yup, yuuuup!
Yea me too Taylor, but I like the way Eric approaches precision, and I thought I saw his wheels turning when he was talking about how the custom barrel makers have failed to meet the market demand. I would build more rifles if it didn't take 6 months or more to get a good barrel. Eric strikes me as the kind of guy that would fix such a problem, or maybe it's just wishful thinking on my part.
Better make sure norm trains some1 thats young to keep that knowledge in action. Hate to loose that level of quality and machinery set up knowhow
Your Barrel didn’t speed up, your projectile did. Lol
Yep
He didnt say that to frank green....
Great interview, but it increased lead times by a week!!
Erik Cortinas shoots barrels with lesser plethoras of grooves, no?
2000/30=66 days...what adds the additional 3-4 months?
Weekends fishing 😁
Sounds like norm is brux barrels.
`HEY bRUX bARRELS ONE MORE TIME. I HAVE A 7-08 BARREL ON A REM 700 ACTION THAT I would like to change. Do you have any 28 inch stainless, 1/7 twist, heavy varmit barrels that you could send to me ???
get in line with everyone else.
I'm buying a Brux, yip, yup, yup, you bet yup, yep!!
.... and if you look at benchrest shooters, they shoot 4 groove barrels.
Brux produces good barrels but longevity is not competitive with many other popular manufacturers (brinnel strengths
Get some.
Maybe show videos of the lapping process, since you’re on a “video” platform. 🤦♂️😉
The problem is you can't find good employees. Especially in machining.
yep, yep, yep........yep
416 vs 400