Do you check your bore when hunting?

John Y Cannuck

John Y Cannuck

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Twice now, I've had this happen.
I walk through to the guys, trying to push deer, I open my rifle to unload, and a small stick slides out after the cartridge.
Would I have been Ok to fire? who knows? Would I have missed my intended target?
Who has the guts to try it? I do, but I don't happen to have a rifle I want to scrap handy. Would take some rigging to come up with a solid rest that could be string fired from a distance and stay on target.
 
i've heard having ice on the muzzle and firing will affect the rifling to the point of bullets hitting the paper sideways, is this true
 
uphere said:
i've heard having ice on the muzzle and firing will affect the rifling to the point of bullets hitting the paper sideways, is this true
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Sure will. it's funny how your accuracy is affected when you blow up your barrel!:eek:

I use Ducttape as well.
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I carry an old FN pullthrough in my buttpack. If I'm worried, I drop the weight down the breech and out the muzzle. Sometimes there are surprises. It is also my preventive maintenance cleaning before and after each day in the field.
 
Don't y'all know that they have just the thing in the stores? It's called muzzle protector and costs 5$ @ WSS and 3$ @ Russels. (different brands though)

I used baloons, and not just once.... condoms.:bigHug:
Condoms are good for safety too. You know all the guys that find it's fasionable to lean their head on the muzzle, supporting those tired brans while there's a live one in the chamber? With a condom...... let's just say that any worth-living hunter wouldn't want that near his chin.:p
 
uphere said:
i've heard having ice on the muzzle and firing will affect the rifling to the point of bullets hitting the paper sideways, is this true
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I have a barrel here that on firing split from the muzzle right through the chamber in two pieces. It was caused by a bit of snow and ice in the muzzle.

I use masking tape over the end of my muzzle after I clean the barrel. It keeps lint, dust and debris out of the barrel while standing in a rack or going in and out of a case and while hunting.

I don't mind that many shooters ignore the muzzle of their rifle... I usually get a rebarreling job because of accuracy loss due to internal damage at the muzzle... caused by firing a round when there is dust and debris in the end of the barrel. It's like a quick sandblast effect when you do that.
 
Nitrile finger cots & electrical tape. Of course, that didn't really help when I fell through the ice into the swamp.
 
Me and dad were going hunting one day, and the night before I figured I'd give the guns a little clean up.

In Dad's rem 1100, there was a wad in there. I didn't know it was a wad right away.
It was in there as solid as a rock!! It took me about half an hour heating a rod in the fire and trying to burn it out. Eventually I poured oil down the barrel and let it sit for a while and with some elbow greece it came out.

Ir was a wad. How, I don't understand!! Was Dad's last shot from the day before a foul! Really don't understand.
Had Dad fired one more shot on that previous day, or I not cleaned his gun, there would have been an accident for sure.

Now i constantly check my gun before after, and during hunting. I also use tape and fire right through it with my shotgun.
 
guntech said:
I have a barrel here that on firing split from the muzzle right through the chamber in two pieces. It was caused by a bit of snow and ice in the muzzle.
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was it completely pluged if so thats not quite what i was talking about, but still good to know
 
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