In approximately 2003 I was working with some great guys that invited me out to shoot prairie dogs with them in a secret spot in South Dakota.  After a little prep work I got everything together and went out with them for, at the time, the time of my life.  We shot hundreds of dogs in a week of being out there.  The guys I went with were disappointed with the numbers and promised a better year next year.  I was blown away after hearing this news, after all with the hunting I had done in the past my experiences had been vastly different with the point of the whole process being to shoot one of whatever you were after.  One, just one and if done right you fired one round.  There was lots of preparation to get that one round to do what you intended for it to do and the rest was the hunter.  Dog town USA was a much different story, shoot vermin to help ranchers and shoot as much as you want.  

My second year out was a different story.  I did all of the prep work, started to reload and dial in the couple calibers that I was working with and really got into all the processes of making this hobby work.  It got deep enough that the guns I was using for shooting prairie dogs were legitimate bench rest quality rifles that were accurate enough to be competitive at that game as well.  This year was different than the first.  We found the dogs and we shot, and we shot and we shot some more.  There were thousands of dogs slain in that week and there would have been more except for the problems with hot barrels and the risk of shooting one out due to heat issues.  

So what do you do when you are addicted to something like that and heave heat issues with the two rifles you brought out?  You get more rifles!  Year three comes around, now I have 6 rifles of the same quality in the hopes that with this number of rifles I would be able to keep shooting and not have to wait on a cool down.  The problem is the larger barrel diameters that are conducive to accurate shooting hold heat for a long time and an even longer time when the natural environment is at 100 plus degrees with no shade.  Long story short the dogs were again great that year and all of my rifles were hot with me waiting on cool downs to shoot again.  This is where my mind started looking for a solution.  

There has to be a way to dissipate heat that won’t kill a barrel like dunking it in ice water (or any water for that matter).  There are some little fans that you can point at them when you’re out shooting that have little effect but there really is nothing on the market that will keep me running longer, right?  Wrong!  At least not at the time that I am writing about.  During that period of my life I was working a sweet office job (not really I was bored at a computer most of the day) with lots of time for research.  My inner nerd came out and my Norwegian stubbornness also came into play.  I was able to come up with a few ideas on how to make it work with different materials.  Most of these materials with a high thermal efficiency were not suitable to be barrels as they were too soft.  I prototyped several different things and starting working out this idea.  After working through multiple problems I was able to get everything I needed in place and make some one off units for testing in a high volume way.  In the meantime my life had changed from being an office employee to being a self-employed gun shop owner with a lathe so I could make what I needed when I needed it in regards to this project.

I finally had some prototypes to take to take to the prairie dog towns.  One of these rifles was a 6mm BR that was a dream to shoot with .150” aggregate groups at 200 yards, it was crazy accurate.  I was on the dogs with this rifle and not paying attention to barrel temps.  I went through about 450 rounds without a break and never bothered to check the heat of the barrel as I was having too much fun and the dogs kept coming.  When it hit me I was certain I had destroyed this barrel.  I went to do the touch feel heat test, you know the one where you nearly burn your hand when checking for what you already know to be HOT surfaces, and simply put it was not hot enough to burn me and I was able to put my hand around the entire diameter of the barrel without effect.   I was amazed and I designed it!  The testing has continued for nearly ten years after this and through the long process of receiving a US patent.  I have been able to streamline the appearance of the product as well as tighten tolerances.  After a decade of working on this I am happy to say I have a finished product and am pleased to offer it to you.