NAA - The Earl is here

Landro said:
... which will come as no surprise to those who know me.

Kodiak Outpost immediately replied to my email and politely suggested that I give the barrel a thorough scrubbing, just in case the lack of rifling was "a trick of the light" and assured me they would make it right if there was a problem.

Lo and behold, the more I scrubbed, the more the rifling moved up the barrel until I had rifling from one end to the other w:h: Magic!!! It's shallow, but it's definitely there all the way.

However, the scrubbing did not make the grips appear ;) But Kodiak assures me that's an easy fix.

Quality, cute gun. Great service, including very polite after sale support.

(BabySeal, scrub the snot out of the barrel. Perhaps you have magic rifling too...)
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Yeah, its there, but only in the loosest sense of the term. They are more scratches than rifling.

But I dont imaging it really matters. We are talking about launching a.22 a pistol distances. Its not exactly long range artillery.

That said, I wish there was a way to get NAA to send a new barrel for me with your grips.
 
Son, someday all this will be yours

So I shot mine a couple of days ago and cleaned it yesterday. I checked out the rifling during the cleaning and found that the first 2/3's of the barrel had rifling that looked like it had some chatter during the cut. The last third before the muzzle is fine and smooth. From the cleaning some lead flakes came out. I'm hoping that shooting it more will smoothen out the obvious chatter marks and this lead buildup will stop.

Something I noticed though is that because the chatter marks stop the last smoothly cut portion almost looks like it has no rifling by contrast. I had to look at it more closely and direct the light into the barrel "just so" to see the lands and grooves clearly. But once I did this it was obvious that the last portion was just fine. Baby Seal. I wonder if yours is in the same boat.

The little gun is amazingly accurate. Luckily I had gotten a chance to shoot a 1/2 box with a buddy's .22 derringer a couple of months back so I had a pretty good idea on how to modify my grip to deal with this small powerhouse. As a result I was getting nice tight groups right off the bat. THIS GUN LIKES TO SHOOT WELL! Later in the night (indoor range) my groups slide off to the left very slightly by about an inch at 10 yards. Thinking my grip had altered I tried to readjust. But it only helped a little. But with a couple of alterations the accuracy came back and the gun pretty much riped a big 2 x 4 inch oval hole in the paper target from the nearly 100 rounds I shot into that target.

The WMR stuff is enough hotter that it shot low but centered by about 1.5 inches at 10 yards. The .22LR was spot on... once I got my grip restored.

All in all I shot about 100 LR and 15 WMR. That WMR on this small a gun really pushes the hand around in a very satisfying Magnum like manner.

And from the first of the pictures below you'll see both why I wanted one and the reason behind the title of this post. You can really see the family resemblence when they are side by side.

family2.jpg


Earl.jpg
 
You folks are making me jealous - your Canadian versions of The Earl seem to make a whole lot more sense to me (I'm a fan of barrel length in the .22 Magnum - though I just got my 4" Bearcat converted to .22 Mag by Hamilton Bowen while he was doing an action-tune) than the ones we have for sale down here in the States.
 
BCRider said:
So I shot mine a couple of days ago and cleaned it yesterday. I checked out the rifling during the cleaning and found that the first 2/3's of the barrel had rifling that looked like it had some chatter during the cut. The last third before the muzzle is fine and smooth. From the cleaning some lead flakes came out. I'm hoping that shooting it more will smoothen out the obvious chatter marks and this lead buildup will stop.

Something I noticed though is that because the chatter marks stop the last smoothly cut portion almost looks like it has no rifling by contrast. I had to look at it more closely and direct the light into the barrel "just so" to see the lands and grooves clearly. But once I did this it was obvious that the last portion was just fine. Baby Seal. I wonder if yours is in the same boat.

The little gun is amazingly accurate. Luckily I had gotten a chance to shoot a 1/2 box with a buddy's .22 derringer a couple of months back so I had a pretty good idea on how to modify my grip to deal with this small powerhouse. As a result I was getting nice tight groups right off the bat. THIS GUN LIKES TO SHOOT WELL! Later in the night (indoor range) my groups slide off to the left very slightly by about an inch at 10 yards. Thinking my grip had altered I tried to readjust. But it only helped a little. But with a couple of alterations the accuracy came back and the gun pretty much riped a big 2 x 4 inch oval hole in the paper target from the nearly 100 rounds I shot into that target.

The WMR stuff is enough hotter that it shot low but centered by about 1.5 inches at 10 yards. The .22LR was spot on... once I got my grip restored.

All in all I shot about 100 LR and 15 WMR. That WMR on this small a gun really pushes the hand around in a very satisfying Magnum like manner.

And from the first of the pictures below you'll see both why I wanted one and the reason behind the title of this post. You can really see the family resemblence when they are side by side.

family2.jpg


Earl.jpg
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Congrats on the little gun, they match up quite well.

Trigun
 
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