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Sunday, July 26, 2015

How A Remington 700 Gunsmith Can Improve Your Skill

By Phyllis Schroeder


Anyone who owns a firearm wants their piece to be an elegant ornament of self-defense with the greatest precision possible. Fortunately, there are after-market upgrades available for many brands and of firearms available. To ensure proper installation, one should seek out a professional, such as a Remington 700 Gunsmith.

Accurizing, the process of making a gun more accurate, is a delicate procedure. Accuracy in a firearm is defined as the ability to hit whatever target one is aiming at. This seems simple enough until one tries out an old-fashioned revolver known for the bullet to land a few feet to the right of the target.

There are a few factors involved, the first of which being the grip that one has on the weapon. Installation of a better grip which allows for comfortable holding without clenching the weapon is ideal. If the grip is comfortable then the shooter should be able to fire the weapon with a consistent degree of pressure.

For shooters new to the sport of rifle marksmanship, the recoil of the weapon can be startling, causing the shooter to miss the target, and sometimes making the shooter uptight about the weapon itself. It is not possible to completely obliterate recoil on a rifle, but this harmonizing effect can be reduced. Harmonizing effect should be proportionate to the square of the length of the barrel, so a longer barrel will result in less recoil.

There is a level of kinetic energy which is lost with a longer barrel, however, and this loss of speed and power can mean a clean kill versus a messy injury to big-game hunters. In order to make up for the loss of speed, they will generally change the ammunition they use. An armor-piercing slug will do much more damage on impact than buck shot, but one is warned to make sure such ammunition is legal in their jurisdiction.

Perfecting the accuracy of a firearm also involves making the moving parts fit together in such a way that they shift the least under recoil. Professional gunsmiths do claim that this process is as much art as science. Getting these parts to achieve the best possible tolerance to one-another requires an experienced hand.

Consistency of the ammunition quality is a factor which surely cannot be ignored. Gun manufacturers have ammunition that they recommend because those bullets have shown themselves to perform consistently well with a particular weapon. This type of accuracy is more than adequate for most afficionados, leaving the high-precision professional shooter as the only one likely to hand-load ammunition of their own making.

With the best possible precision and accuracy, any experienced gun slinger should be able to achieve clusters on their target. This is especially true for those wise men and women who practice with a particular weapon on a regular basis. Having an expansive knowledge base about firearms is always good, but only an intimate relationship with a particular weapon is likely to result in true precision.




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