TSJ Series: RB Big Bore Rifles

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Ryan Breeding of RB Big Bore Rifles was passing through my neck of the woods recently and we got together at my gun club to play with some of his masterpieces. Breeding builds the ultimate stopping guns for dangerous game of the bull-elephant-and-up category. Remember those ads for Foster’s beer that described a nine-pound sledgehammer as “Oostraalian fer flyswatter?” That kind of gun. If you get killed by a dangerous game animal while carrying one of Ryan Breeding’s rifles, it’s because your name is Francis Macomber.

These are the Aston Martins of hunting rifles.

Breeding does all his work himself, by hand. He starts with an action from Granite Mountain Arms. He reworks the magazine spring to ensure proper feeding; smoothes the rails, magazine wells and feed ramp; he laps the lugs for full contact; he fits the barrel himself and does his own chambering to ensure proper headspace; he does his own bluing. Everything is fitted, smoothed and polished by hand.