Now this has got to be a fun article with a lot of letters to the editor in November. Me, well I'm going to just watch. I collect military bolt action rifles and keep them unmodified. One of my best shooters recently is a M-98 with a badly corroded barrel I cleaned out with penetrating oil. I have an 1891 Argentine Mauser that shot a 5-shot group at 100 yards with iron sights I could cover with a quarter.
To: Retain Mike
Yea, this sounds like a newby goofball pontificating about something he knows nothing about.....
2 posted on
10/30/2009 8:27:37 PM PDT by
9422WMR
(When seconds count, the cops are only minutes away.)
To: Retain Mike
More gun barrels have been ruined by obsessive cleaning than by neglect.
True fact.
3 posted on
10/30/2009 8:30:00 PM PDT by
mamelukesabre
(Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum (If you want peace prepare for war))
To: Retain Mike
That was an interesting article. Looking forward to reading some of the letters.
When I hear the extremes that some people go to when cleaning their barrels, it kind of makes me cringe.
4 posted on
10/30/2009 8:33:15 PM PDT by
smokingfrog
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To: Retain Mike
I clean all my guns with hot lead.
;>D
7 posted on
10/30/2009 8:54:40 PM PDT by
RebelTex
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To: Retain Mike
The most accurate of the Europeanrifles which could be bought cheaply recently has been the Swiss K31 straight pull.
8 posted on
10/30/2009 8:58:42 PM PDT by
wendy1946
To: Retain Mike
all of the benchrest shooters i know practiced modest barrel break in regimens. first ten shots were fired individually, the barrel was allowed to cool, and then given a quick cleaning between each shot. then a few five shot groups were fired at slow pace, then ten shot groups up to 100 total rounds. considering the groups these guys used to shoot, i’ll listen. personally, i take ten individual shots, let the barrel cool and wipe it for each shot, then move to ten round groups up to fifty shots. i can’t shoot anything like as well as those guys.
10 posted on
10/30/2009 9:05:52 PM PDT by
sig226
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To: Retain Mike
Ah yes the barrel analistas surface again. I also have several old military rifles. One in particular is an Argentinian Mauser. Had a tight spot in the middle of the barrel. Put a light coat of some gunsmiths magic on several bullets and fired them. Gun now shoots better than many modern rifles. It is over 100 years old.
12 posted on
10/31/2009 6:07:41 AM PDT by
mad_as_he$$
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To: Retain Mike
He needs a half inch group to kill a white tail? Just how small are the deer where he comes from?
13 posted on
10/31/2009 6:10:17 AM PDT by
csmusaret
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Good article. Much of what this fellow says I have found to be true.
14 posted on
10/31/2009 7:28:58 AM PDT by
Joe Brower
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To: Retain Mike
Jim Carmichael “the Rifle”, the best rifle book out there.
Just my humble opinion.
19 posted on
10/31/2009 9:03:24 AM PDT by
devistate one four
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To: Retain Mike
That 1/2 inch range grouping isn't nearly as important as steadying against a tree at the top of a steep hill, when your heart is pounding like a bass drum, your lungs are wheezing like a steam engine, and sweat is running down your forehead into your eyes.
My rifles do shoot better after a few rounds through them, and getting cleaned after each outing. But that is probably more improvement on my part than on the rifle's. I guess it is "broke in" when I can hit what I'm aiming at.
34 posted on
10/31/2009 2:57:31 PM PDT by
meadsjn
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44 posted on
10/31/2009 5:35:01 PM PDT by
Charlespg
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To: Retain Mike
Bump, for good advice and later reading
50 posted on
11/01/2009 11:55:01 AM PST by
correctthought
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