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Remember when they were all the rage? It seems that fad died out. What was the reason for that fad fading?

What are some other fads that waned? Muzzle brakes?

Uhhhh…

I shot the Winchester Fail-safe in my 300 H&H...very accurate
Never used a brake but have had a couple of rifles Magna Ported

I’m guessing moly bullets faded cause the cost out weighed the advantage of them, if there was an advantage I never used them.

Muzzle brakes?
Proven useful tool where needed ....

Laser rangefinding rifle scopes? Haven't seen a new one of those in quite a while.

Muzzle brakes are useful in shooting precision long range. A friend of mine casts, lubes, gas checks and moly coats bullets for suppressed subsonic hunting. They work pretty good on pigs.

Dial-a-duck, recoil reducing cannisters, shark fin front sights, beech wood stocks stained with weak tea, trigger levers to reduce pull, anything bored old men did to shotguns in the 50s, 60s, 70s.

What I hope goes away is, plastic pieces of triggers and bottom "metal" that should be steel, ugly colors of cerakote, mold lines in synthetic stocks, threaded muzzles on Fudd guns, bolt handles that look like marital aids, and trigger gimmicks instead of making a quality part to begin with.

Damaging the guns value putting white diamonds in the stock or a recoil pad on it,,
Cutting slots in the barrel so it blasts anyone nearby at the range or your own self on a handgun,
There is always some genius idea coming along.

You ought to check out the Swaro Ds ..

I'm one of the dinosaurs that still uses moly in a few of my rifles.

My Tikka M695 in 270Win has been fed a diet of molyed 130gn TSX's exclusively since new. Round count is just short of 800 so far, with dry brushing using a nylon brush occasionally. Still shoots sub-moa. I'm kind of waiting for accuracy to degrade before doing a traditional clean, but so far so good.

Really obstinate moly fouling at the throat, raising pressures.

wood & blue

Man sheeit

I still got Remington Bronze Points to load up

Here's a real turd.

Cutts Compensator, Poly Choke?

Leupold scopes and .270's

I never found an advantage to moly bullets but shot a lot of them through varmint guns because I got a hell of a deal on thousands of them, they shot just like uncoated bullets. Only thing I found that cleaned that [bleep] up well was Kroil Oil though. It seemed to get all of the moly out or at least loosened up enough to clean a barrel thoroughly

Apparently stainless steel/synthetic stocked bolt action rifles aren't being made as in the past. When is the last time you saw them on the rack at the local gun store?

The last time I walked into Sportsmans Warehouse.
Lots of Tikkas in SS and synthetic.