Pac Nor Update

[dale2242]

A friend and I drove over to Brookings Friday to get out of the valley.
While there we decided to stop by where the Pac Nor shop had been to see if they had made any progress since their devastating fire last October.
It seems their plans to rebuild were held up for 3-4 months by local land use laws.
When we got up the hill, there stood a brand new steel building filled with machine tools.
Three employees were working and owner Chris Dichter was on site. Chris's son Casey was off looking for more tooling.
They had just started drilling the very first barrels in the new shop.
I saw maybe 20 or so 30 caliber barrels that had been freshly drilled.
Chris said they were going to Noveski for a government contract.
Since the barrel making business is so specialized a lot of the tooling has to be made in house.
I think Casey makes most of the special tooling.
I know he makes the buttons for rifling the barrels.
The oven for heat treating the barrels had not arrived yet.
They are in the earliest stages of production, so don`t expect them to get to full speed for 3-4 months.
It`s good to see a premium barrel maker back up and running, if only in the earliest stages.

[BK7saum]

Awesome. Glad they are rebuilding/restarting. Thank you for the update.

[nicholst55]

Glad to hear it! I'm in need of a barrel or two, and hope to buy from them.

[Jester560]

I was just about to place an order when the fire happened. I still haven't ordered that barrel. I have been waiting on them to get back up and running.

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[dale2242]

We were back over there Friday.
They were honing and rifling barrels.
They had me look down a freshly honed barrel at a white garage door across the parking lot. It was hard for me to imagine how they can hone a freshly drilled barrel to such a high polish. It was mirror like.
Casey showed us the equipment, drills, reamers, etc they bought from the now defunct Montana Rifle Co.
This buy gave them a dramatic head start back into the barrel business.
The heat treating oven had arrived and was be heated up in stages to break it in.
Casey was saying they have plans to make their own actions sometime in the future. getting back into barrel making will come first.
He said they should be able to start making barrels for customers in 3-4 months.
Once again, the barrels they are now making is for Noveskes government order of 300 BLK.