Your words are too kind but thank you.
Tack Driver Junior (TDJ) is a Calfee Sporter, and it wears the same barrel he put on it 13 years ago. Over that time, it has had the trigger changed, and the firing pin changed but that is about all.
Four years ago, I turn up a new barrel for TDJ. When I tested it, I thought it shot as well or better than the Calfee barrel, so I planned to leave it on. But when it came time to pack up for the Sporter 10-shot Nationals, I lost my nerve and put the Calfee barrel back on.
At the nationals I shot a 500 agg. won the match and set a new record. Last year I was tempted to put on the new barrel but again lost my nerve. At the Nationals last year, I won again and broke my record. TDJ continues to shoot and if there is such a thing as a hummer barrel TDJ has been a hummer rifle.
OK, I've bragged enough, sorry for that, but I have special feelings for TDJ it has carried me a long way.
The pic is from the day Calfee was testing TDJ. That is his rest and scope that he used to test most of his builds. Crude maybe but it worked.
TKH