10/16/2026
Customers often call and ask me to make their ri**es recoil less without hurting reliability.
I have customers who hunt in minus-whatever temperatures… no thanks! 😂 But I tune their ri**es here in Texas.
A question came up a while back: “If you tuned my r***e in warm weather in Texas or Oklahoma, will I have reliability issues when I take it up north in the cold?”
The answer is no—not if it came from me and was built my way.
That said, if you tune your r***e at 20°F with a hot load and then run that same load at 110°F in the summer, you’ll need to turn the gas down slightly to keep recoil as low as possible. However, reliability will still be perfectly fine, so long as it was set up correctly.
I wanted to do a fun, impromptu test to demonstrate this. Eight days ago, I assembled a 16” PRS Lite for my son to shoot in a PRSuit match that weekend and then take on a hunt in Idaho. I tuned it exactly like I do for every customer.
I put about 60 rounds through it Friday morning to start breaking it in. Then came a 160-round match, roughly 40 more rounds confirming data in Texas, and another 15–20 rounds confirming data and zero in Idaho.
He shot a muley at 512 yards. Perfect shot placement (thanks Kestrel Ballistics), and it tipped over about 2–3 feet from where it had been standing when shot. That’s what the necropsy photo is from.
Throughout all of this, the r***e was never cleaned or adjusted. It was run suppressed the entire time, with a low-mass carrier, an adjustable gas block, and a high-flow suppressor from KGM. It hasn’t been cleaned in any way since we built it. I added Lucas oil twice this far in the r***e’s use. I didn’t bring tools or oil to Idaho, as I was that confident in the process we have.
When it gets to North Carolina this weekend, the bore will be cleaned to help with barrel break-in, but nothing else will be cleaned or adjusted. After that, it heads back out to Colorado—again, without any additional cleaning or adjustments.
PS: The No Shift Frame set is absolutely amazing! Jared Niblett
