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Mine is barrel cleaning. I wandered up the caliber range until you could tear off your shirt sleeve and shove that down the bore as it made life easier. I detested cutting little squares or trying commercial ones made out of that putrid plasticy cotton substitute and fiddling with the damn things with endless loops, bore end pieces, brushes et al.
Smallest caliber (in the true sense) I have after rimfire's is .257 and that takes a lot of patience to to clean to the point it is over 25 years old and only fired a few hundred, mostly test loads. I then jump to 7mm where barely tolerable begins. My only muzzle loader is .54 and that's kinda nice. Used to have more .40 something caliber rifles than any other calibers in my rack.
If there is another, it is case trimming but I found a Lyman electric trimmer and that saved me.
What gets up your nose, but you have to do it?
When truth is ignored, it does not change an untruth from remaining a lie.
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Campfire Kahuna
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The idea that a rifle barrel has to be cleaned to within an inch of its life or it is considered dirty....bothers me.
I am MAGA.
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I do hate trimming brass…
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Campfire Ranger
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Space. I have nowhere left to store anymore firearms.
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Too many guns is like too much money!!
Even birds know not to land downwind!
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Shooting, it is noisy and I have to go outside.
mike r
Don't wish it were easier Wish you were better
Stab them in the taint, you can't put a tourniquet on that. Craig Douglas ECQC
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Barrel cleaning, reloading shells, that's about it......and Australian gun laws are too tough.
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Patience. Patience when working on firearms is the name of the game unless you want to fug something up more than what it already is. I’m a lot better today than I was 30 years ago but it’s something that I still have to remind myself. My base tendency is to want to put it in the vice and rush through it to get it done ASAP😟
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My biggest personal hang up regrading firearms…..is simply I don’t have enough of them.
"Know guns, no crime. No guns, know crime." - Ralph Lauretano
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I'm more likely to shoot myself rather than an intruder.
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I shoot high volume 20's & 22's......not rimfire In a hot p/dog patch where you can ran 65-70 rds an hour This is not uncommon...A wet Sham Wow rag can aid in cooling Mostly for a break......push a patch or two every hour or so Get your spare rifle & let the hot one sit in the shade...upright...chimney effect Have barrels with 10K+ rds and still shoot 1 MOA p/dog Some barrels shoot good dirty & hot
T R U M P W O N !
U L T R A M A G A !
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Too many guns is like too much money!! Exactly. I always keep a running list of 10-20 more guns that I’d like to add to my collection. That list changes overtime and is more aggressively pursued sometimes than at others but no matter how many I have I still have that 10-20 more guns running list that id like to own.
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Campfire Kahuna
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Shooting, it is noisy and I have to go outside.
mike r God forbid, have to turn off Rawhide, with the feet havin th’beetus and all
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Mine is gun snobs that cut down other gun owner's firearms because they only buy the most expensive, a certain type, or only tacticool weapons, and everything else is garbage. These folks let every one know............. sort of like when Vegans brag about their rabbit food to strangers..
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When somebody brings brand X gun over-to zero that is supposed to shoot bugholes. Four brands of ammo later and the best group is 2 moa. Edk
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Accidental discharges. Especially in cars. Some people should not own guns.
Dog I rescued in January
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The idea that a rifle barrel has to be cleaned to within an inch of its life or it is considered dirty....bothers me. Agree. I don't clean barrels until accuracy starts to deteriorate.
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