I shot my No.4(T) scopeless and was underwhelmed

[Brian Dick]

Maple Leaf Eh, Your rifle needs a servicing/tune up to spec as they all did and still do. I've done more than I can count in the past 20+ years and you can't just leave them alone with loose screws and dried out wood, then take them to a competition! It's a good way to screw them up worse that they may already be. A little careful and basic maintenance won't hurt anything if done correctly and will cure the problems you have for the next 10 years at least. There is a happy medium. Guys who think they need to tear perfectly good rifles apart once a year to clean them are on the other end of the spectrum. before yopu know it, the forend drops off by itself and accuracy will surely be on the decline. I've fitted a lot of new wood to them in the past several years doing ground up sporter restorations. When the forend is fitted correctly and you have to give it a tap with a block of pine to get it off from the rear end, that's when they are perfect. So much so that all the ones I've sent out of here would do 2 moa at 100 yards and probably 1 moa in the hands of a young, competent shooter with good eyesight which I'm not. They were never sending me to sniper school, that's a fact!

ColinA states it short and sweet. Sometimes a good drink of raw linseed oil will work wonders and bring the forend bearings back where they should be after a long year hiatus. I haven't been disappointed yet as long as the bore gauges in spec, wood is fitted correctly, and the screws are tight.

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Sorry for the typos. I have a No.4 to breech up and I'm in a hurry!