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I've learned to take enough to share. In elk camp I had enough to tape everyone's barrel twice, but barely!
I found some nice brown electrical tape I have high hopes for.
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Before taping, make sure your bullet hasn't fell out of the little end of the barrel. If it already has fell out, the powder prolly has too. The tape won't do ya much good.
If you shoot through it... it will leave a hole. Could be considered as over penetration by some..
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Thomas Jefferson
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One thing has always made me wonder about the masking tape on the end of a barrel. How is it that the smallest scratch on a crown can significantly affect accuracy but a piece of tape over the spout doesnt?
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One thing has always made me wonder about the masking tape on the end of a barrel. How is it that the smallest scratch on a crown can significantly affect accuracy but a piece of tape over the spout doesnt? Because the bullet touches one and doesn't/can't touch the other.........
Suck bullets simply suck.
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Pressure in the barrel blows the tape off long before the bullet gets to the end of the barrel.
Most people don't really want the truth.
They just want constant reassurance that what they believe is the truth.
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Who said gun owners have no sense of humor? 
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Dammit Coyote! You're givin' away all our secrets!
Well.... At least you didn't tell 'em how it eliminates glare and aligns light rays coming into our scopes and allows us to spot game 30 minutes earlier and 500 yards farther than normal (even using cheap Chinese optics). And how the blue color arouses curiosity in game animals and makes them come right to you.
Bring enough gun and know how to use it.
Know that it is not the knowing, nor the talking, nor the reading man, but the doing man, that at last will be found the happiest man. - Thomas Brooks (1608-1680)
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Pressure in the barrel blows the tape off long before the bullet gets to the end of the barrel. I wonder about that. It sure doesn't blow the entire piece of tape off the barrel. It only makes a bore-sized hole in the tape. So does the compressed air coming down the bore ahead of the bullet blow a hole in the tape? Or does the bullet actually touch the tape and make the hole? Not that it matters. Either way it doesn't affect accuracy as everyone says and as I've confirmed to myself by trial and error.
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compressed air ahead of the bullet....
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