Craige Douglas - AMAZING!!

[Kelly Timoffee]

My rifle arrived at his shop November 7th, of 2019.

Spoke with Craige, went over what we would do, he went ahead and ordered a barrel.

I said, please take your time, no rush.

Get a call at work today , your gun is ready for pick up!!

That is just amazing!!

Not sure if he visits this site but this is a shout out just to say that this turn around and service should be a model to any type of business out there.

Now it's up to me to not tarnish his fine work with some poor shooting.

 

[savagelh]

I've always heard good things. Does he still have his shop on 44th? I heard he had moved his shop to am acreage.

 

[Kelly Timoffee]

I've always heard good things. Does he still have his shop on 44th? I heard he had moved his shop to am acreage.

47th

 

[bearhunter]

Good on you and Craig Douglas.

I hope this new barrel shoots a lot better than the last one.

I would be interested to know.

It seems you've started a bit of a trend, or at the very least brought it to the surface. A few of the guys I know are also now claiming to be having accuracy issues with their S2 Weatherby's. I was curious to find out if it was just a certain cartridge, for the simple reason a lot of people purchase magnums they just aren't comfortable with shooting.

Turns out most of the rifles were from the batch of FLAME pattern, synthetic stock rifles that were sold at a huge discount a few years before Wholesale Sports went out of business.

KT, I know from your posts that your rifle isn't part of that batch.

I recently recycled a take off S2 barrel. It was chambered in 223rem and it was going onto a Remington Mod 7 action, so I had to cut off the thread tenon and rethread/cut new chamber for the 22-250 it was going to become.

I have no idea where the barrel came from. Whoever took it off, did a nice job with no marks, This was just a hunter profile barrel, so not a lot of room for playing around. This barrel was used because of its 1-9 twist rate and was picked up at a gunshow for $50. It also appeared to be used very little, if at all from new.

After threading etc and installation the Remington Mod 7 shoots the 22-250 with heavy bullets very well. The fellow using the rifle wants the heavier bullets for longer shots on coyotes when it's windy. Yes, he will settle on one bullet and use it for all conditions he's likely to run into.

The rifle was shooting 80 grain A max into less than a half moa, out to 300 yards, when I last spoke to him. He would certainly let me know if the rifle didn't shoot well.

Yeah, off topic, but I remember how much effort KT put into getting his 300WM to shoot well enough for his standards. Frankly I would have quit much sooner.

Ruger went through a stretch when their rifles were hit or miss for accuracy. From the rifles I've shot recently they seem to have fixed that problem.

It's possible Weatherby went through a similar issue.

 

[Kelly Timoffee]

Good on you and Craig Douglas.

I hope this new barrel shoots a lot better than the last one.

I would be interested to know.

It seems you've started a bit of a trend, or at the very least brought it to the surface. A few of the guys I know are also now claiming to be having accuracy issues with their S2 Weatherby's. I was curious to find out if it was just a certain cartridge, for the simple reason a lot of people purchase magnums they just aren't comfortable with shooting.

Turns out most of the rifles were from the batch of FLAME pattern, synthetic stock rifles that were sold at a huge discount a few years before Wholesale Sports went out of business.

KT, I know from your posts that your rifle isn't part of that batch.

I recently recycled a take off S2 barrel. It was chambered in 223rem and it was going onto a Remington Mod 7 action, so I had to cut off the thread tenon and rethread/cut new chamber for the 22-250 it was going to become.

I have no idea where the barrel came from. Whoever took it off, did a nice job with no marks, This was just a hunter profile barrel, so not a lot of room for playing around. This barrel was used because of its 1-9 twist rate and was picked up at a gunshow for $50. It also appeared to be used very little, if at all from new.

After threading etc and installation the Remington Mod 7 shoots the 22-250 with heavy bullets very well. The fellow using the rifle wants the heavier bullets for longer shots on coyotes when it's windy. Yes, he will settle on one bullet and use it for all conditions he's likely to run into.

The rifle was shooting 80 grain A max into less than a half moa, out to 300 yards, when I last spoke to him. He would certainly let me know if the rifle didn't shoot well.

Yeah, off topic, but I remember how much effort KT put into getting his 300WM to shoot well enough for his standards. Frankly I would have quit much sooner.

Ruger went through a stretch when their rifles were hit or miss for accuracy. From the rifles I've shot recently they seem to have fixed that problem.

It's possible Weatherby went through a similar issue.

When I get a weekend of decent weather I will load up a few break in rounds, then I will do two ladder tests with the 190's with 2 powders, I'm sure I'll know tout suite if it's all good.

I'm not totally claiming innocence on this one, I could of just been expecting too much out of a skinny factory barrel with heavy projectiles.

He cut it to a max COAL of 3.540" for my 190 LRAB.I will likely stick with my 3.400" COAL I had going , guess I'll start a thread in the reloading forum to see what guys are seating the LRAB at.

I'm quite confident things will go a lot better from this point on, as well thank you for you input in my endeavors.

 

[BrotherRockeye]

For anyone that doesn't know, A C Douglas Gunsmithing has been doing top quality work in Saskatoon for a very long time.

Some old(er) timers may remember when he worked out of Dixon's many years ago before Derald sold to Wholesale Sports.

 

[Kelly Timoffee]

For anyone that doesn't know, A C Douglas Gunsmithing has been doing top quality work in Saskatoon for a very long time.

Some old(er) timers may remember when he worked out of Dixon's many years ago before Derald sold to Wholesale Sports.

Was much nicer back then , could go to Dixon's and Stalkers and not have to go through the whole damn town when coming in from P.A. , yes , first world problems but was sure nice to have the smaller shops with more experienced staff.

Just wish the P.A. shops were competitive with pricing and selection.Sorry off topic.

 

[cbh560]

A.C. Douglas does good work and has had a quick turnaround the few times that I've used his services. If I recall correctly, the last thing he did for me was remove a barrel and install a take-off barrel from another rifle. He had to re-chamber and re-thread and then install. He also completed a trigger tune up on factory X-mark trigger which turned out really nice with a crisp trigger pull around 2.5 lbs. Had it all done and back to me within the same work week.