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Vortakt Barrel Works Announces Release of Six New Barrel Product Categories

January 26, 2023

Vortakt Barrel Works Announces Release of Six New Barrel Product Categories (Menomonee Falls, WI – February 1, 2023) – Vortakt Barrel Works® continues to expand its core product selection as part of its ongoing effort to serve as a world-class OEM barrel supplier for rifle, pistol, and shotgun manufacturers. Chad Weister, Managing Director of Vortakt …

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Vortakt Barrel Works Invests $1.5 Million Toward Manufacturing Facility Improvement Plan

December 13, 2022

Vortakt Barrel Works Invests in Manufacturing Facility Improvement Plan (Menomonee Falls, WI – December 6, 2022) – Vortakt Barrel Works® continues to expand upon its 16,500 square foot Wisconsin production facility as part of its ongoing effort to serve as a world-class OEM barrel supplier for rifle, pistol, and shotgun manufacturers. Chad Weister, Managing Director …

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Heavy Metal - Manufacturing Department of Defense or NATO Contract .50 BMG Barrels

Heavy Metal – Manufacturing .50 BMG Barrels

December 2, 2022

Vortakt Barrel Works: Commercial and Government Subcontracting of .50 BMG Barrels Vortakt has had a long-standing reputation as a government subcontractor of rifle and carbine barrels for infantry small arms and can now produce larger bore barrels for applications like crew-served platforms and aircraft or vehicle-mounted armaments. How is Vortakt Currently Supporting .50 BMG Government …

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Vortakt’s S³ Technology Solution for Clocking Machined Features on Barrels

November 8, 2022

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 the radial relationship of machined features. Barrel manufacturers go to great lengths to ensure these features are perfectly positioned relative to each other in order …

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Crown is King – How Carbon Buildup Can Negatively Affect Barrel Accuracy

September 13, 2022

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 down a bit of an R&D rabbit hole. There has been quite a bit of banter on forums and social media about carbon fouling build-up …

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Now Offering OEM Barrels for the AK Rifle Platform

August 3, 2022

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 supply military and law enforcement agencies across the globe. Vortakt’s production support extends well beyond that of domestic service rifles, including the many governments and …

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Vortakt Custom Tooling Solutions for OEM Barrel Manufacturing

Custom Rifling Configurations for OEM Barrels

June 16, 2022

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 Caliber List spreadsheet), we frequently receive requests for rifling profiles with unique or proprietary bore and groove dimensions, leading and trailing edge configurations, or different …

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The Vortakt 5-in-1 Difference: Supplying Barrels Across the Firearm Industry

March 23, 2022

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 optimal subassemblies and components for each of your unique product lines. These headaches may revolve around quality control, supply chain management, pricing issues, or any …

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It’s Not Black Magic: Selecting Different Rifling Styles for Rifle and Pistol Manufacturing

February 24, 2022

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 have experimented with hundreds of exotic designs over centuries of trial-and-error development, with spokesmen from various manufacturers espousing perceived benefits of one option versus the …

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