Quote Originally Posted by Peter Laidlericon View Post
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I just feel that however well thought out (or badly thought out, depending on your point of view of course.....) and well meaning some of the so called 'tuners' or 'accurisers' were/are, they didn't have the inside knowledge that the original designers had. And that includes the all important harmonics of that hollow tube we call the barrel. Just my view and opinion of course.
I agree, many of the people I have talked to were retired builders, plumbers, electricians etc, all good with hand tools, and veyr good shots so any mod they made tended to be good quality. However what they were not was engineers. Now that doesnt mean they didnt eak out better accuracy here and there and in NZicon alone there was a huge number of ppl tweaking it seems. But it was trial and error I think and well there is no way now I can see to determine which of the "tricks" worked and which didnt when you look at highly modded guns 60 years on. ie which of say 5 was good and if any one of those was actually bad.

So I am going to start with a good known gun and a series of fore ends and play by myself one mod at a time, starting with an as-issued and working on it until I understand how this damn thing works, because it is complex. Then I'll try the mods out.

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"I remember reading these reports"

and of course you have the huge advantage over say me at least, having the access to read everyone elses mistakes.

bye the way did anyone try and metal bed / insert inside the std stock?