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Re: Tapping the end of your barrel while hunting
« Reply #30 on: April 08, 2012, 12:45:20 PM »
My dad started taping my barrel when I first started hunting 15 years ago and I still do it today.  It would really suck to be miles from the truck and fall down and plug your barrel and not be able to shoot that once in a lifetime trophy.  Then again I am probally the only one who falls down while hunting.  I have killed a lot more animals with tape on my barrel than without.

Wish my dad had done that for me... when I was 13, I was hunting and tripped on some barb wire in the snow.  The barrel went into the "ground", as I was trying to clean it out, a huge, especially back then, Wt walked by at about 60 yards.   :'(  I did not take the shot.  Got back to our camp, crying a bit, and all that was in the barrel was about a half inch of snow.  Oh well!  Shot a little forky a couple days later though.

BTW, every time I seee the title of this thread I think about morse code or something while tapping on the barrel instead of taping the barrel.    :chuckle:

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Re: Tapping the end of your barrel while hunting
« Reply #31 on: April 08, 2012, 01:24:45 PM »
A small piece of tape is cheap insurance.   :tup:

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Re: Tapping the end of your barrel while hunting
« Reply #32 on: April 08, 2012, 01:59:03 PM »
I don't, but I am going to start. Last year I slipped and got a little dirt down the barrel of my rifle. Good to know this can be prevented. :)

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Re: Tapping the end of your barrel while hunting
« Reply #33 on: April 08, 2012, 02:57:42 PM »


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Re: Tapping the end of your barrel while hunting
« Reply #34 on: April 08, 2012, 06:56:46 PM »
tape, balloons, finger cots, condoms.. they all work well.
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Re: Tapping the end of your barrel while hunting
« Reply #35 on: April 08, 2012, 07:58:06 PM »
Taping is a great solution for solving the consistent cleaning issue I have with the muzzle brake on my 30-378.  I do not see the need on a non brake or for my muzzy. 
It's a TIKKA thing..., you may not understand.

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Re: Tapping the end of your barrel while hunting
« Reply #36 on: April 08, 2012, 08:31:41 PM »
Taping is a great solution for solving the consistent cleaning issue I have with the muzzle brake on my 30-378.  I do not see the need on a non brake or for my muzzy.

One day my ex forgot to tape her ML barrel, hunted through the wet snow all day... had to pour the powder paste out of her gun to clean it.   :dunno: 

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Re: Tapping the end of your barrel while hunting
« Reply #37 on: April 08, 2012, 08:53:45 PM »
Taping is a great solution for solving the consistent cleaning issue I have with the muzzle brake on my 30-378.  I do not see the need on a non brake or for my muzzy.
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One day my ex forgot to tape her ML barrel, hunted through the wet snow all day... had to pour the powder paste out of her gun to clean it.   :dunno:

Loki,  I hear of this concern often but the projectile seals the barrel well.  In my backyard I have poured water down my  loaded muzzy full then emptied water and fired with no issues.  I guess that makes me the  :dunno:
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