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#10MinuteTalk - Taping your Muzzle – Should you?

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🗓️ 9 June 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Taping the muzzle of your rifle – common practice for some, extreme uncertainty for others. I mean how could sealing the business--end of your rifle not effect accuracy? It has to right? Or does it? Jimmy, Mark and our beloved Ryan “Mucky” Muckenhirn sit down to discuss this very topic. Listen up, it may just save your hunt!

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0:00.0

What's up everybody? We have 10 minutes here and are joined by esteemed colleague the one and only Mr Ryan Muckenhurn and today even though we just got done talking about a cartridge here in our little precast chat.

0:12.5

We're going to talk about taping your muzzle.

0:15.5

And that doesn't mean shut up.

0:17.7

Although, I guess.

0:18.8

I never thought of it in that context to know.

0:20.9

We could say, shut up and listen because yeah that's what we're going to talk about so

0:26.3

explain taping your muzzle somebody Ryan you do it I like electrical tape I don't know why I selected electrical tape. I don't know why I selected electrical tape maybe because it's

0:35.8

convenient and my father's an electrician so he always had an ample supply of

0:39.8

electrical tape and I would just rob the drawer prior to going onto a hunt.

0:44.0

It matches well on a standard blue barrel as well.

0:47.0

It does. It does.

0:48.0

And it's about the right diameter.

0:49.0

Correct.

0:50.0

And it usually doesn't leave much residue behind.

0:52.0

No, not unless you leave it on there for a couple of years.

0:54.4

Oh, well, yeah.

0:56.1

So, I mean, taping your muzzle to the end of your barrel,

0:59.9

your muzzle where your crown is,

1:02.0

you know, the last part that's going to impart any kind of influence

1:05.6

on your bullet, you tape it up and you cover your muzzle. And it's very straightforward. We're

1:10.6

trying to keep debris, water, snow, small rocks.

1:15.0

This is primarily in a hunting situation, right?

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