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good evening fellas. what are y'alls thoughts on wrapping a piece of electrical tape over the muzzle of your rifle during hunting? i am curious as to whether it will bulge the barrel due to back pressure when the rifle is fired. it would be nice to do such a thing to protect the crown and muzzle from debris. what are y'alls thoughts on this please. are there any negative effects to doing this to the rifle? It won't bulge the barrel, however, a well-recessed crown protects the crown just fine. A solution looking for a problem IMHO. There's a way it CAN blow your rifle up. If you hunt empty-chamber, in the rain, muzzle-down, and muzzle taped, water will get into the barrel through the breech and collect in the barrel. If it freezes, kaboom. Just FYI. Yeah, but if you don't tape, and carry your rifle muzzle up, and an eagle flies over, and takes a dump, and the trajectory is just right, and it's spinning in the right direction, and hits the muzzle just right, and.........
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If it’s warm enough for the water to drain...then you won’t have an ice plug! However, dirt/mud can happen above freezing temps! memtb Temperatures change, though, yeah? Anyway.... not interested in debating this particularly, just wanted to point out that the combo of empty chamber, taped muzzle, and carrying muzzle-down could have risks. Good hunting!
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The blue tape makes your rifle shoot harder. It also cuts group sizes in half and reduces rifle weight by 2 pounds. ![[Linked Image]](http://www.hunt101.com/data/500/IMG_13481.JPG)
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Using blue tape I get an extra 25 FPS per layer, so I tape her up but good !
Requires less dope for impact................
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Oh. So Blue tape is the secret to getting those Rugers to shoot.
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Oh. So Blue tape is the secret to getting those Rugers to shoot. Well, it helps. But a receiver glass-bed/free-float barrel and trigger job (or replacement) does it better. My two tangs, tweaked, shoot 1 1/2 MOA or better, depending. The one (.25-06, 77V) I shouldn't have sold went MOA factory. With neck-sized handholds. Factory ammo went about 5 MOA. Speaking of tape, after I shot a hole thru mine ( M98) this weekend, I accidentally dragged the muzzle thru the snow. Fortunately, the barrel was also 5 below at the time, and it just tapped out. I was also out of caribou to shoot, so it didn't matter, but it might have.... 
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Tape works and the bullet will never notice it. I like the latex or similar stuff, but I have iron sights on my rifles and they can be a pain when trying to cover the muzzle. Long ago I wrapped the muzzle on a blue steel Ruger and a few days later it had removed some of the finish on the barrel.
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It has to come off at the end of the day.
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No, it doesn't. Doesn't hurt tho. I've not noticed any bluing or parkerizing removal from tape on my rifles. My blued rifles were self-blued with Dulite hot salts, the rest parkerized. No problem, even with tape left on there for months.
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Tape our muzzles always.
We have a couple Montanas set up exactly alike but chambered differently. So I always tape the kids with red & white tape and mine a different color. Plus I found the red and white on the muzzle makes it easier for them to be aware of their muzzle.
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WWII British fighter planes had the muzzles of their guns taped to prevent sand, dust, ice, etc. from entering the guns. Not sure about Americans, Germans, etc..
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Check my pics, I always "never" tape my muzzles.....
But then again, I always know where my snout is at.... HINT
Ping pong balls for the win.
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Check my pics, I always "never" tape my muzzles.....
But then again, I always know where my snout is at.... HINT Never, ever saw more disgusting displays of muzzle-direction-cluelessness than on those proclaiming perfection... And I will stand 100% on those observations over the last four+ decades...
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There was a poster (IIRC, Jim in oregon) who claimed to always KNOW where his muzzle was as he had NEVER slipped, tripped, not fallen in DECADES in the woods.
Hey, some people are legends....
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time.
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Check my pics, I always "never" tape my muzzles.....
But then again, I always know where my snout is at.... HINT Never, ever saw more disgusting displays of muzzle-direction-cluelessness than on those proclaiming perfection... And I will stand 100% on those observations over the last four+ decades... Good for you chief... I’ve done just a fair amount of huntin, with nary a problema, suppose I won’t either...
Ping pong balls for the win.
Once you've wrestled everything else in life is easy. Dan Gable
I keep my circle small, I’d rather have 4 quarters than 100 pennies.
Ain’t easy havin pals.
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There was a poster (IIRC, Jim in oregon) who claimed to always KNOW where his muzzle was as he had NEVER slipped, tripped, not fallen in DECADES in the woods.
Hey, some people are legends....
And for some, "in the woods" means the 200 yards to the blind. If you've never fallen or slipped, you're not trying hard enough.
A wise man is frequently humbled.
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Check my pics, I always "never" tape my muzzles.....
But then again, I always know where my snout is at.... HINT You shoot Leupolds too right?
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There was a poster (IIRC, Jim in oregon) who claimed to always KNOW where his muzzle was as he had NEVER slipped, tripped, not fallen in DECADES in the woods.
Hey, some people are legends....
Even the dog can see this one coming... ![[Linked Image]](http://pic90.picturetrail.com/VOL2250/777751/13525437/408608245.jpg)
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There was a poster (IIRC, Jim in oregon) who claimed to always KNOW where his muzzle was as he had NEVER slipped, tripped, not fallen in DECADES in the woods.
Hey, some people are legends....
And for some, "in the woods" means the 200 yards to the blind. If you've never fallen or slipped, you're not trying hard enough. ...or at all. 
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time.
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Check my pics, I always "never" tape my muzzles.....
But then again, I always know where my snout is at.... HINT You shoot Leupolds too right? Ya VX 1 4-12 here.... ![[Linked Image]](https://s13.postimg.org/d5780dfrr/158_B65_FD-6_C50-4_DC8-_BF4_F-_D7_E479742330.jpg)
Ping pong balls for the win.
Once you've wrestled everything else in life is easy. Dan Gable
I keep my circle small, I’d rather have 4 quarters than 100 pennies.
Ain’t easy havin pals.
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