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Subject: Submission for mod-rec-guns
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Date: Fri, 30-Jan-87 20:07:11 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 30 20:07:11 1987
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Author: tektronix!sequent!brian@ucbvax.Berkeley.Edu (Brian Godfrey)
Article: 1:52

>>                                  I would add just one thing. If you are
>>interested in accuracy, wipe out the barrel with a dry cloth *before* you
>>use the gun. Otherwise your first few shots will be wild.
>With my GX-1, I've found that running a patch through the barrel prior to
>shooting (or shooting a fouling shot or two) is unnecessary.  The rifle
>will print one hole right out of the case.

   My suggestion was in response to a procedure which ended with oiling the
barrel. If you leave oil in the barrel it does two things. Your chamber and 
back-pressures will vary until the oil is all forced/burned out (two or three
shots), and since the oil has collected on the lower side of the inside of
the barrel the bullet will exit with a wobble. I have a .22 which will 
literally drive nails (I have done it and it is also fun to split bullets
on the edge of an axe.) and I have seen this effect time and again. I never
minded shooting a couple of extra shots to get me and the gun warmed up, but
then I am not a "serious" shooter. I do it for fun.

--Brian