H-S Precision Engineered For Accuracy
John Anderson
it was breezy, but not something we couldn’t handle. But all morning the wind got stronger and stronger … and fi nally the guys from H-S Precision who were running this hunt decided to call it quits. We packed our gear into the vehicles and headed back to Rapid City, stopping for lunch at a small town café. H-S Precision, Inc. had invited
The headquarters and manufacturing facilities for H-S Precision Inc. are located in a modern building in the southeastern part of Rapid City, South Dakota. The company's motto is "Engineered For Accuracy," and their rifl es live up to this claim.
prairie were reaching about 50 miles per hour and the tall prairie grass was about mashed fl at. Only a few prairie dogs were staying above ground in this
B
y midday the winds whip- ping across the South Dakota
gale … showing they were smarter than those of us with rifl es. It really didn’t matter much if most of the prairie dogs were heading underground. We couldn’t hit them anyway. When we arrived at this dog town around 9:00
about half a dozen writers to a plant tour of their manufacturing facility in Rapid City, South Dakota. The visit also included some prairie dog hunting about 50 miles out of town, where we would be fi eld-testing H-S Precision rifl es, most of them chambered in .223 and .22-250 and topped with Leupold scopes. With our hunting plans scuttled for the fi rst day, we now had more time for the plant tour. Tom Houghton Sr. founded H-S
Precision in 1978, beginning as a small barrel manufacturer. Since then, the fi rm has grown into the leading manu- facturer of semi-custom rifles, and Tom Houghton Sr. has retired. These days, Tom Houghton Jr. heads up the company. The H-S manufacturing facil- ity also has grown over the years and their current manufacturing facility has 47,000 square feet of space, having been added on to as more space was needed. Here the company manufactures all the components used in the production of their Pro-Series 2000 rifl es. These components include the Pro-Series syn- thetic stocks, stainless steel cut-rifl ed barrels, and stainless steel actions and triggers. Further, the company is the leader in making specialized barrels and equipment for testing ammunition. All the major ammunition makers for quality control testing, plus the NATO countries, use this equipment. More than a dozen years ago
Actions begin as stainless steel tubes, and after several machining steps on multiaxis milling machines complete actions result. Bolts for the actions are produced in similar fashion.
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writer Jon Sundra wrote of H-S Preci- sion as “… the quiet gun company.” Since then, H-S Precision has become the leading manufacturer of “semi- custom” rifl es. The FBI and BATFE use
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