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Likely, yes. For sure, no. There are other variables. Good place to start though.

That would be idiotic but you seem to have cornered the market on that. Do you actually believe someone is going to consistently build (chamber) a gun around a specific lot of ammo. It's been done and it will work, but it would be stupid for the average competitor or gunsmith to want to do...

I don't fail to grasp anything. He chose to do what he did I assume because he wanted. That's why he is not that well known. That's what I said in the beginning. You keep saying that I don't know what I don't know, which is an obvious statement. Yet you make cryptic almost unreadable posts...

I think it creates the choke. Don't cut it down and the bore at that point stays smaller than the rest of the barrel.

Tight place will be right at the crown and maybe another the chamber. If you ever slug one, they usually seem like the bullet would wobble down the bore until it catches that choke. The ones I've seen it's amazing they shoot at all. I bought an old 54 for $238 shipped from San Diego I think...

]] But couldn't sell one for $5,000 after being offered $10,000. And that's posthumous. They usually go up. I don't understand the first part of your post. Did he do all that, claim all that, or what. I mean for instance what does "3 of the best makers of match .22 barrels mean". And was...

I find it hard to believe that Calfee said he had never rethought or changed his mind on anything, when he has publically acknowledged exactly that on this board. But maybe he did. I'm not like a lot of people. I don't copy and save this stuff. I never expect to be sued over it, but you...

Yeah Tom, I'm a city boy so that coal truck thing just kinda fascinates me. Except for the 15 years that I spent in the coal fields I have no experience with such a thing. I driven so many of the back roads of Kentucky that I have the back road driver syndrome. I have to remember to slow down...

Don't doubt it a bit. But that's small and localized. The east coast is a big place and just a part of it is small and localized as well. That's just a fact. I'm not saying anything bad about Amick and certainly do not wish to discredit or disrespect him in anyway. I'm just saying most...

Very small following in a very localized area. It may have seemed like a large following in the area. Most people had never heard of him until PS did the article. Did that gun ever sell? It was priced at half value.

Chet Amick did shoot unsanctioned matches, which is why he had a loyal but very small following. You know the article in PS said his guns would bring $10,000. Did the one for sale here for $5,000 ever sell?

No, well maybe, see it's like this, could be, most likely not, remains to be seen. Kinda like one of them old 8 balls.

Martin, What did he say and I'll tell you whether or not he does it.

Nobody ever said there was a magic rifle builder. Certainly Calfee has never said so. You have a bone to pick with something and I'm honest with you. When I say I don't know what the problem is, I'm being honest. So, why don't you enumerate the differences you mention and then maybe it will...

Yeah, Martin do that for Gene. That's a heck of an idea. Only use the CMP though. That custom gun is junk anyway. I could even help and give it a few twists myself if needed.

You're exactly right. Calfee rifles don't win every match. Of course, I would contend that Calfee rifles win no matches as I've never seen a rifle shoot itself. But anyway, shooters using Calfee rifles do not win every match so why key in on Calfee. Martin has a bone to pick with Calfee and...

I really don't. Maybe you and Bill do, but not me. I seems to stem form the Bill versus Varmint thread. I've posted for Bill and read what he put up there, which is consistent with what he has always said. I don't think I've read very many of the responses. Just a bunch of old men swinging...

Yeah, long as he sends it. Doesn't want to come around here if he's a census taker. Seems like a dangerous federal job.

Maybe you ought to point the finger elsewhere. Calfee doesn't build 300 rifles a year. I guess for me, I'll just limp along with my bottom rung ammo. There's sure some ammo sitting in safes that I would like to buy.

Martin, Bill can't tell you his secrets. He has none, they've all been published. Because you can't apply them, don't blame him. And that's the way it is.