Bore Pics -- Showing Off a Bit! W00T!
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Bore Pics -- Showing Off a Bit! W00T!
Hello,
I got done cleaning out my Gewehr 88's bore. To check any work I do, I usually use macro pictures as well as magnifying tools.
This bore actually went back to almost-new condition. The rust that was on it hadn't penetrated too far down -- looks like it was maybe just there from sitting unprotected for a year in a gunshop, assumed to be a parts gun!
I am rather thrilled.
This means my rifle is in 95% or better condition -- on of the better ones out there -- and the bore is not nearly as bad as I thought!
The only problem is that it's not all matching, but no biggie. I probably wouldn't shoot it otherwise!
Not bad for $37.50, eh? :eek:
Regards,
Josh
I got done cleaning out my Gewehr 88's bore. To check any work I do, I usually use macro pictures as well as magnifying tools.
This bore actually went back to almost-new condition. The rust that was on it hadn't penetrated too far down -- looks like it was maybe just there from sitting unprotected for a year in a gunshop, assumed to be a parts gun!
I am rather thrilled.
This means my rifle is in 95% or better condition -- on of the better ones out there -- and the bore is not nearly as bad as I thought!
The only problem is that it's not all matching, but no biggie. I probably wouldn't shoot it otherwise!
Not bad for $37.50, eh? :eek:
Regards,
Josh
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Re: Bore Pics -- Showing Off a Bit! W00T!
That is really cool. I wish someone (or two) would do a "how to" photograph your barrel.
Those are some nice shots
Dolk
Those are some nice shots
Dolk
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Re: Bore Pics -- Showing Off a Bit! W00T!
Just about time to dirty it up again
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dolk wrote:That is really cool. I wish someone (or two) would do a "how to" photograph your barrel.
Those are some nice shots
Dolk
Yes, please do. I have tried several times and maybe 1 good one in many tries.
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Very nice... So how did you get those pics?
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Re: Bore Pics -- Showing Off a Bit! W00T!
Nice job Josh
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
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Re: Bore Pics -- Showing Off a Bit! W00T!
Through many trials and errors on bore pics:
1. I've found that natural light works best when possible. Place the open chamber in the sunlight, and the muzzle in the shade.
2. Get a camera with super macro.
3. Hold the shutter button 1/2 way to focus at a position about 4" from the crown. When it pulls the crown in sharply, keep the shutter depressed 1/2 way, and move to within 1-2" of the bore.
4. Snap photo.
In artificial light.
1. Place a thin sheet of white paper in the chamber with a bore light behind it.
2. Use normal or macro setting (not super macro)
3. Use a black piece of paper with a hole and slip it over the muzzle to the depth of the bore that you wish to capture.
4. From 3-4 feet away, let the camera focus on the black piece of paper, snap shot.
5. Crop pic to bore size and save.
And great save, Josh. Shoot that one a lot!
1. I've found that natural light works best when possible. Place the open chamber in the sunlight, and the muzzle in the shade.
2. Get a camera with super macro.
3. Hold the shutter button 1/2 way to focus at a position about 4" from the crown. When it pulls the crown in sharply, keep the shutter depressed 1/2 way, and move to within 1-2" of the bore.
4. Snap photo.
In artificial light.
1. Place a thin sheet of white paper in the chamber with a bore light behind it.
2. Use normal or macro setting (not super macro)
3. Use a black piece of paper with a hole and slip it over the muzzle to the depth of the bore that you wish to capture.
4. From 3-4 feet away, let the camera focus on the black piece of paper, snap shot.
5. Crop pic to bore size and save.
And great save, Josh. Shoot that one a lot!
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Re: Bore Pics -- Showing Off a Bit! W00T!
Hi Gents,polymerase2 wrote:Show me the crown!
Some folks were asking to see the crown. Here she be!
I count one small nick. I was going to polish it, but heck, I'm shooting twigs the width of my pinkie at 30 yards unsupported.
How do you rate the crown?
Thanks,
Josh
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Re: Bore Pics -- Showing Off a Bit! W00T!
Are you sure you didn't mean 237.50 or 337.50? That must have been a typo!
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I'm showing off too. I'm getting better with my chamber scope. This is the chamber face of my '37 Tula.
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Re: Bore Pics -- Showing Off a Bit! W00T!
That old colonoscope works pretty good. I think I see a polyp in your chamber there LC.Longcolt44 wrote:I'm showing off too. I'm getting better with my chamber scope. This is the chamber face of my '37 Tula.
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Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
C. S. Lewis
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
C. S. Lewis