CumbrianWildfowler Posted October 19 Report Share Posted October 19 Is there anything you can add to a new guns action to ease it up? Emery paste? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted October 19 Report Share Posted October 19 NNooooooooooooooooooooooooooo...........use it ...even waste a load of cartridges will settle it down......dont know what gun you have...take it down to the clay range and buy a shed load of cheap light cartridges and shoot it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobbyH Posted October 20 Report Share Posted October 20 If you use emery paste, it will ‘over wear’ the guns action so after it’s bedded in so to say, it will be sloppy! As above, just use it and it will ease off on its own accord. Just remember to clean and oil/lubricate it correctly and it’ll serve as a long term gun! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CumbrianWildfowler Posted October 20 Author Report Share Posted October 20 Thanks for the feedback guys Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old'un Posted October 20 Report Share Posted October 20 if you must ease the action it can be done by lightly filing/polishing the forend iron where it makes contact with the loop on the barrel but as above, it would be better to let the gun bed in over time and defiantly do NOT use emery paste. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
owain Posted October 20 Report Share Posted October 20 What kind of gun is it? I’ll run it in for you if you like 😃 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enfieldspares Posted October 20 Report Share Posted October 20 (edited) Ah! Emery paste, emery paper, emery cloth. The sportsman's friend. Eases actions, makes shiny barrels matte, removes copper fouling from rifle bores and for the piscator can impart a true "stealth" finish to a brook rod for those shy wild brown trout. I once read a thread on a fly fishing forum about a man who wanted a "stealth" finish to his expensive glossy Sage or Loomis 7' 6" carbon fibre #4 weight rod. So he spun it in a drill holding emery paper to its body. Not bad, not so glossy, but still not quite matte enough for a real "stealth" finish. So it appears he set to with a will for a second session and then, as he recounted, his rod collapsed on itself. He had emery clothed it all away. But that aside the gun is meant to be tight when new made so that over a short time the thing will bed in and the top lever come across to six o'clock from it start half past five. If it was made with the top lever at six o'clock to start over time the lever would then come over to past "fore and aft". Edited October 20 by enfieldspares Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fil Posted October 20 Report Share Posted October 20 4 hours ago, old'un said: if you must ease the action it can be done by lightly filing/polishing the forend iron where it makes contact with the loop on the barrel but as above, it would be better to let the gun bed in over time and defiantly do NOT use emery paste. THIS!! But It's quicker to polish the loop rather than take the fore end apart. And the only thing I use emery paste for is for barrel boring. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old'un Posted October 20 Report Share Posted October 20 1 hour ago, Fil said: THIS!! But It's quicker to polish the loop rather than take the fore end apart. And the only thing I use emery paste for is for barrel boring. Agreed, that is the easier option. The video is for the OP, its the opposite to his problem but it shows how to tighten a forend iron and will give him some idea of what to-do, if he must. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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