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I've never taped my muzzle, but am hunting in MO this sat with rain in the forcast. I'll be hunting regardless of the weather since I'm only going to be there 3 days. How should I or how should I not tape my barrel to keep the rain out yet not affect accuracy. I've never shot at the range with a taped barrel so my confidence that it won't throw the bullet impact off, is a little weak. Thanks for any feedback and pics to demonstrate. What kind of tape do you recommend? RBH Lol. This again. I hunt in the rain all the time and have never taped. It ain't hardly necessary. Do keep in mind, if you carry empty chamber and muzzle-down the tape can actually trap water in the barrel. For those who DO use their rifle as a prybar or chisel <grin> I can see the utility in taping to keep debris out. Dumbphuck that I am on this subject, I still manage to hunt hard in the rain and bluster without getting debris in my barrels but that's probably just dumb luck.
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i've seen a few barrels that were shortened because of shooting them with snow or mud in the muzzle.
i use electrical tape on all rifles year 'round. always.
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I got some of those little black "rubbers" for barrels and tried them. They are too fragile to be of any use; they tear easily, they won't stand up to any abuse/friction/rubbing at all and if the barrel isn't big enough the rubber falls off... Story of my life...
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It isn't just a guard against rain. I tape my muzzle whether it's wet or dry. And wrap a back up piece around the barrel a couple of inches below the muzzle. A mis-step, for instance, can end up with dirt in the barrel that can end your hunting day. A pennies worth of tape is cheap insurance. Came out of an arroyo,crawling,for a crack at a hog pronghorn one time,after a rainy/snowy day....pushed the 270 ahead of me and in classic, putzy fashion, managed to slip a bit and jammed the muzzle in the mud.....no tape of course so I slid back down outa sight..... A pal and I managed to whittles a sagebrush branch down to size and scoop the crud out of the end of the barrel.We made sure it was clean.... I bellied back out, got a solid prone rest over a clump of sage,and killed the buck at about 275 yards....ever since then I always roll a couple of turns of electric tape around the barrel.Don't always use it but it stays all season.
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I've been taping since before (Al Gore invented) the internet. A friend who didn't, couldn't chamber a round due to snow dust which ended up against the bolt face and and his 300 consequently couldn't do what 300s are good at when the opportunity to kill a nice bull moose arrived. A few years later, I was in too much of a hurry to locate some tape. I also didn't leave the rifle outside to cool off well before taking off. The warm barrel trapped snow which melted just inside the muzzle and froze. I don't know how I would have gotten the solid plug of ice out of there if we hadn't had a warm muffler against which to lay the barrel in the cold wind. A lighter sure wouldn't have done any good. I was also glad it was a 670 Winchester, not some finely blued rifle I was carrying at the time.
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I use maxi-pads. They absorb well, and nobody ever laughs their butt off or gives me a ration of sh1t about it.
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I run only Blue tape, avaiable at www.dontbestupid.com and find that my muzzle velocity gains are great. I gained over 250 FPS with my 30-06 so now I can shoot a 180 grn bullet at 3500 FPS with only the slighest pressure signs.
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I use maxi-pads. They absorb well, and nobody ever laughs their butt off or gives me a ration of sh1t about it. Do you prefer the ones with wings or no wings?
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3M blue painters tape. It's 24hr campfire approved. End of story.
If anyone else recommends anything else - they probably voted for Obama. I'm not sure you can kill anything in the rain if you use a color other than blue.
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It would be a shame for this thread to get lost....another Jeff_O classic....
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To keep "stuff" out of the bore?
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Silence is golden but duct tape is silver.
I just saw that on a bumper sticker today.
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I cut the fingers off of surgical gloves to cover end of the barrel.
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Bump you open muzzle across the carpet(home or truck) and get a light and look at the grains of sand stuck inside the barrel muzzle. If it's a rifle, i tape it.
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I use maxi-pads. They absorb well, and nobody ever laughs their butt off or gives me a ration of sh1t about it. Do you prefer the ones with wings or no wings? Smelly or clean is the question-?
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If being stupid allows me to believe in Him, I'd wish to be a retard. Eisenhower and G Washington should be good company.
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