We have finally figured out how to fix any problem with rifles.

1. Start by applying a good thick coat of BBQ paint to all exposed surfaces.

2. Following by bedding the action with rubber bands

3. Finish up by wrapping your scope with six yards of tape before mounting.

When all of this has been done, set the rifle on a rest and smack the crap out of the bolt handle as hard and as many times as it takes to break something...then repeat steps 1 thru 3 several more times till the rifle starts working again.

You guys just now figuring that out ... that's what my uncles have been doing for years.

Sounds like the makings of a gunsmithing book!

You left out using Adams & Bennett barrels when rebarreling and Ramline stocks for the custom look.

Got to get some BBQ paint for my Tarus Raging bull do you think it would tighten up the action. If not maybe I should dip in in a 5gal bucket of the stuff then throw it in the oven and let it bake at 450 for 8hrs.

Glen71,
That would require a certain degree of literacy on the part of the target market.

I am planning to go to the range and to test two rifles bedded on rubber bands. One has tape on the muzzle and both have tape on the scopes under the rings.

I have one painted with stove paint too. Anyone who wants to come out meet me at the range now.

Bring your fancy custom rifles with you. This invitation has been open for a while now.

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Originally posted by Savage99:
I am planning to go to the range and to test two rifles bedded on rubber bands. One has tape on the muzzle and both have tape on the scopes under the rings.

I have one painted with stove paint too. Anyone who wants to come out meet me at the range now.

Bring your fancy custom rifles with you. This invitation has been open for a while now.

Pardner...lighten up...this was just one of my feeble attempts at some humor on here...nothing else.

Don't forget to wrap tape around the bolt handle to get that knob exactly the shape you want.

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Originally posted by Wink:
Don't forget to wrap tape around the bolt handle to get that knob exactly the shape you want.

I tried that...but it got in the way when I was beating on the bolt handle with the brick!

lmao - good post.

I have heard that the Kraft barbecue sauce (garlic flavor) is good for removing copper fowling from Adams & Bennet barrels.

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Originally posted by billhilly66:
I have heard that the Kraft barbecue sauce (garlic flavor) is good for removing copper fowling from Adams & Bennet barrels.

Yeah, that’s true...and it works even better when applied with sandpaper cleaning patches.

I did zing some guy here who fires a primed case in the field so as in insure the POI as a fouled bore. First shot impact is important and so is good humor.

I am back from the range. It was quite windy so I only shot at 100 yds. Even then the good shooting rifles shot very well. Of course the ones that did not were blown out by the wind!

One of the rifles bedded on rubber bands is a Kimber 8400 Montana in 270 WSM. This rifle has in the past shot anywhere from small groups to almost 2 moa. I never identified a cause of the variance.

Now that the bands are under the action the rifle has shot some two and three shot groups of 1/2 moa or even better. One of the loads is a full power load as well.

Another rifle so bedded on rubber is a Ruger Express in 270 Win. This rifle never shot better than 1.5 moa. Not a lot was expected of it. It's just a pretty face that I might trade off some day.

However with the rubber bedding now it's under 1 moa with all loads. The rifle is still a confection however and a little heavy also. Now it's interesting though.

Just because something is pillar bedded does not mean that it's right. I have to learn more about these factory rifles.

The long range guys were at the range and the talk was of 4064 powder. They seem the same as I am going from pillar to post on one thing after another.

Like someone said "The great goal of life is not knowledge but action"

I suppose like the doctor said to the lady when she said complained of a nameless dread was "Not to worry as I have a name for everything".

Suppose they make BBQ paint in blaze orange?

The best mod to a rifle was the one I saw last
Saterday. Lots of weird people in Australia
have Brno .22Rfs for some strange reason.
The rack is full of the damn things, all looking
much the same.
One enterprising bloke put a little flag sticker
on the end of his pistol grip. May have even
shot better.
John L.

Are you guys suggesting that us neophytes shouldn't believe everything we read on this board?

So, what's with the rubber band bedding. I haven't heard the particulars of that yet?

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Originally posted by turkeyhunter:
So, what's with the rubber band bedding. I haven't heard the particulars of that yet?

Scroll up a ways to Savage99’s posts.

There’s also another thread under Gunsmithing about that topic.