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When I got this gun 40 years ago, it had a tight chamber then. The only ammo it would GLADLY accept was Winchester brand. All others were tight. Too tight for convenient field use.
It shoots top groups. Semi-auto in size. A tossup between my HS Trophy and this M17.
But NOW, there is not one brand of ammo that is not too large for it. Even CCI Green Label is tight in a couple chambers.
But the tightness has kept me from using this gun as much as I would like to as I took it out last weekend with some Remington ammo which occasionally needed one whack to seat and the next to fire. If I was careful to really POOOOOOSSSHHHH them shells in, everything was ok.
I would like to judiciously ......hone...... the cylinder holes. Don't want to use a reamer as such a small amt needs to go.
What's best to use? Valve grinding compound? I don't see a .22 hone listed in Brownell's. I want to start by not resizing the whole length of the chamber as it is such a grouper. Just the back end and only as far as the case length.
And what do I use for a tool? Just a rag-wrapped brush?
Any info appreciated.
Thx
Edited to add: It is CLEAN! No ring, no lead, no fouling. Has been tight since new in 1963.
It shoots top groups. Semi-auto in size. A tossup between my HS Trophy and this M17.
But NOW, there is not one brand of ammo that is not too large for it. Even CCI Green Label is tight in a couple chambers.
But the tightness has kept me from using this gun as much as I would like to as I took it out last weekend with some Remington ammo which occasionally needed one whack to seat and the next to fire. If I was careful to really POOOOOOSSSHHHH them shells in, everything was ok.
I would like to judiciously ......hone...... the cylinder holes. Don't want to use a reamer as such a small amt needs to go.
What's best to use? Valve grinding compound? I don't see a .22 hone listed in Brownell's. I want to start by not resizing the whole length of the chamber as it is such a grouper. Just the back end and only as far as the case length.
And what do I use for a tool? Just a rag-wrapped brush?
Any info appreciated.
Thx
Edited to add: It is CLEAN! No ring, no lead, no fouling. Has been tight since new in 1963.