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Oklahoma made the front page of Yahoo! (yeah, I know, but its still funny)
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<blockquote data-quote="dennishoddy" data-source="post: 3848067" data-attributes="member: 5412"><p>My mini-14 as well as most out there in circulation can be a good rifle for the first shot or maybe two, then heating starts and the barrel band takes over to create a barrel that wanders everywhere on succeeding shots. I've owned two over the years, one stainless ranch rifle and the other a blued model.</p><p>All shot minute of 5 gallon bucket with shots typically running low left to high right as the barrel warmed up.</p><p>There are people out there that are making a living removing the barrel bands and converting those rifles to floating barrels to improve accuracy.</p><p>The ruger .44 mag rifle with barrel bands do exactly the same thing. I have one as well.</p><p>There is a reason peope requiring the utmost accuracy from their rifles use a floating barrel with countless magazine stories/forum posts telling someone that is experiencing inaccuracy in their rifles to run a dollar bill between the barrel and the stock. It should slide freely with no drag to assure a floating barrel.</p><p>I've made some impressive shots with the mini's. It wasn't accuracy, it was because the animal just happened to be where the bullet landed that caused it's demise.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dennishoddy, post: 3848067, member: 5412"] My mini-14 as well as most out there in circulation can be a good rifle for the first shot or maybe two, then heating starts and the barrel band takes over to create a barrel that wanders everywhere on succeeding shots. I've owned two over the years, one stainless ranch rifle and the other a blued model. All shot minute of 5 gallon bucket with shots typically running low left to high right as the barrel warmed up. There are people out there that are making a living removing the barrel bands and converting those rifles to floating barrels to improve accuracy. The ruger .44 mag rifle with barrel bands do exactly the same thing. I have one as well. There is a reason peope requiring the utmost accuracy from their rifles use a floating barrel with countless magazine stories/forum posts telling someone that is experiencing inaccuracy in their rifles to run a dollar bill between the barrel and the stock. It should slide freely with no drag to assure a floating barrel. I've made some impressive shots with the mini's. It wasn't accuracy, it was because the animal just happened to be where the bullet landed that caused it's demise. [/QUOTE]
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