VORTAKT BLOG
Vortakt’s S³ Technology Solution for Clocking Machined Features on Barrels
How the Single Setup Solution Mitigates Most Barrel Indexing Issues When a barrel manufacturer mentions clocking, they’re not referring to your 6:00AM wakeup call! Clocking (or indexing) is tied to …
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Crown is King – How Carbon Buildup Can Negatively Affect Barrel Accuracy
How Muzzle Brakes and Suppressors Increase Carbon Fouling During a recent trip to the range, the Vortakt team ran across an interesting barrel performance phenomenon that took our engineering group …
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Now Offering OEM Barrels for the AK Rifle Platform
Government Contract and Commercial Barrels for AK-47, AKM, AK-74, and Other Kalashnikov Firearm Designs Vortakt Barrel Works has a well-developed reputation as a government subcontractor, supporting the firearm manufacturers that …
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Custom Rifling Configurations for OEM Barrels
Providing Rifle and Pistol OEM’s with Unique Rifling Design Solutions While Vortakt® maintains a versatile collection of tooling designed to accommodate most SAAMI spec barrel designs (as evidenced in our …
Vortakt Expands Production Capacity with Revolutionary New Turning Center
OEM Barrel Manufacturer Introduces Industry-leading Automation Technology Vortakt Barrel Works once again demonstrates its commitment to becoming the future of OEM barrel manufacturing by introducing “The Profiler”, a new fully …
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The Vortakt 5-in-1 Difference: Supplying Barrels Across the Firearm Industry
Providing Best-In-Class OEM Barrel Manufacturing Services at Every Price Point If you’re a rifle or pistol manufacturer with a wide-ranging product selection, you’re intimately familiar with the struggles of sourcing …
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Precision Rifle Components Provides Performance Review of 500 Series Vortakt Barrel
Accuracy Test Highlights Precision of Vortakt Barrel in the Field Precision Rifle Components is an aggregator of precision rifle content and a product design contractor that specializes in the engineering, …
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It’s Not Black Magic: Selecting Different Rifling Styles for Rifle and Pistol Manufacturing
Optimizing Rifling Lands and Groove Dimensions for Maximum Accuracy There has long been debate among the firearm community regarding the merits of rifling styles in rifle and pistol barrels. Manufacturers …
It’s Not Black Magic: Optimal Twist Rate Selection for OEM Barrel Manufacturing
Finding the Ideal Twist Rate for Your Production Barrel Design The last few decades have seen incredible growth in cartridge development across the firearm industry. Rapid advances in firearm technology …
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