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Les Bowman at work testing the 3 new 7MM Remington magnums on Remington's new 700 series. Early 1960's.	Les Bowman with WY mountain grizzly shot with Motel 70 .270 Featherweight in 1960's.	Randy at Les's range testing various 17 caliber rifles with Les. Chronograph is Avton, onf of the first top quality instruments used by most expert ballistictians at the time. Summer 1969.
Mike Hissie of Sharps sighting for Randy at Les's range. Shooting Sharps prototype rifle in 1969.	Randy with prototype bench rest action heavy varmint 6MM PPC. Designed and built by Randy, 1985.	Randy and Les in Cody, WY approx. 10 months before Les's death. Randy's holding his custom 6MM PPC rifle.
Randy with full curl WY ram shot at 375 yards with custom 6.5 x 55 in 1994.	Randy's North Dakota buffalo taken with 7MM-.404 Wapiti Express, developed & designed by Randy Selby.	Randy with daughter, Angela at Raton, NRA Whittington Center 2002 50 BMG World Championship Shoot with 50 BMG designed and built by Randy.
Randy & Landon Selby, "guides" for Cathy Selby, 1998 WY sheep hunt. Shot with custom .280 Remington.	Randy, Landon & Angela at home.	Cathy Selby holding custom 25-06 Ackley Imp., in-house stock. Randy Selby holding 7MM-.404, in-house stock.
Randy with Flint Selby's North Fork Elk, 2005, scores 331.	Randy in his shop at the lathe rechambering a barrel.	Randy in his shop at the lathe rechambering a barrel.
Landon Selby at our private shooting range shooting 7MM STW.	Landon Selby, 9-19-06. Area 3 WY Big Horn Sheep. 3" past full curl. A real trophy! Taken with .300 Win. Mag. Selby Custom Rem. 700. Shown here with his Dad, Randy Selby.

Randy learned from an early age by the example of his Granddad, Earl Brahler, who was a lodge owner 13 miles from the east gate of Yellowstone Park, and west of Cody, Wyoming. His Granddad was also, among other talents, a gunsmith and hand loader. Randy was also fortunate to live nearby and have as a close friend, the late Les Bowman who lived on the South Fork, south east of Cody on the L-B Ranch, as an outfitter and guide. He tested and wrote magazine articles for all of the major firearms companies, including Colt, Remington, Winchester and Weatherby and others. As a trained engineer, gun test and expert ballistician he also tested products for the major scope manufacturers and reloading component companies, writing the results in industry magazines here and abroad. Randy spent thousands of hours, while in Cody, and later years in the different locations where Les was living, helping and learning from Les as he was testing firearms, scopes and components, starting at the tender age of 8 until Les's death in 1987 when Randy was 36. Les was one of the most qualified men in this country to test rifles and the large gun companies and gunsmiths sent their rifles to Les for product testing. Much of what Randy does and knows he contributes to Les's friendship and tutoring. They kept up correspondence through the years, also, trading ideas, and Randy was always pleased and humbled when Les would ask for his opinion or his help. It was always a joy when they were able to visit in person and talk non stop for hours.