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Results of hand lapping at home..Remington LTR .308...



First days shooting once sighted in:



With handloads:



Friends gun..same exact gun as mine...I did the lapping on his also...as well as a dozen of my friends guns...

300 yards...



800 yards..




LTR .223 bought used but unfired. Shot before lapping with 75 grain Hornady TAP ammo...best group was .75" at 100...this is after lapping...

All targets 300 yards...

.69"



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I have another target downstairs but not yet photographed at 600... 1.9" ctc...

Very simple to do and talks no special tools. Figured out how after the barrels on two Ruger #1s rusted on me while cleaned and in a gun safe...no other gun showed any rust anywhere but the bores on these two just GREW rust. After lapping the .22-250 #1B went from .75 moa to .4 moa. The .375 H&H went from .75 moa to clover leafs...

I now do all my long guns and some of my handguns.

Bob