PROOF Research Video Reveals Carbon-Wrap Barrel Technology
Montana-based PROOF Research has released a revealing new video showcasing carbon fiber firearms technology and the company’s barrel-making process. Viewers will find the 8-minute film an intriguing introduction to composite barrel-making, which employs aerospace carbon fiber wrapped around a steel barrel core. The video showcases the high-tech machines used at PROOF’s production facilities.
PROOF’s CEO Larry Murphy explains that PROOF’s barrel technology is state-of-the-art: “What PROOF Research is doing is bringing disruption into our industry. We’re doing things that have never been done here before. That’s going to help the warfighter, and it’s going to help the average hunter … it’s going to do a lot of things.” The video shows how the company employs aerospace-grade, high-temperature composite materials to build match-grade carbon fiber-wrapped barrels, and composite rifle systems.
Dr. David Curliss, General Manager of PROOF Research’s Advanced Composite Division, and former head of the U.S. Air Force High Temperature Composites Laboratory, explains how aerospace expertise helps in the development of PROOF’s firearms-related products: “We are able to provide premier materials for PROOF Research for firearms barrels applications as well as the aerospace market. We’re probably the only firearms technology company that has composite materials in orbit around the earth.”
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“We’re doing things that have never been done here before. That’s going to help the warfighter, and it’s going to help the average hunter”
Well, one of those two people will try this product, but the other is pure marketing.
Well… after looking at their website & “barrel-builder” feature, if I can’t select the TWIST I want in a barrel that costs nearly three times that of stainless barrels… not gonna be in my dreams anytime soon.
The desire to enhance the shooting experience whatever venue will fortunately always be at the forefront of every technician in the industry. New products are what make the industry and the shooter.
There are two questions that come to mind:
I didn’t see any data on barrel life.
The video mentioned accuracy to a MOA. Since I have several rifles and barrels that are sub MOA I would need more specific data on barrel life and accuracy.
In a large diameter application for precision, how do these really stack up? The lack of objective measures is a little UN-inspiring.
I noticed in the list of matches won, lots of 3 gun and tactical stuff but nothing that I saw that was out and out accuracy competition.
Some of the marketing wank in that promo did make my eye twitch. ‘Continous improvement’, ‘steeper curve’, ‘aerospace grade’ etc..
If they want to be taken seriously by the precision market they’ll need more than MBA buzz words and marketing toss.
That said, if they are light and genuinely sub 1/2 MOA barrels, in sizes, lengths and twists that are good for our applications, they’ll sell for long range hunting applications etc.
If you are an accuracy only bench shooter, barrels are consumables and the price per unit matters, plus the weight isn’t much of an issue.
Interesting product, if I could be assured of SUB 1/2 MOA performance, I’d try one.
There will have to be a couple competition winners using this barrel for it to prove itself. It sounds very impressive, and we might all be using one some day. At the moment the extra expense is yet to be justified.
While a 5 or 6lb rifle sounds like all that and a bag of chips, fact is that a light rifle is much more difficult to shoot well than a heavier rifle, say of 10 or 12 lbs.