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One thing that I didn't mention about the rifle is that the bore got cleaned 3 or 4 times in 20 or 25 years of rain, snow, mud and general neglect. Dad was a wonderful man, but not the gun cleaning type. I did that occasional mercy cleaning. I'll load up some light loads and see how it shoots, and it needs a big cleaning now. The bore might be 40 miles of bad road. I want to use Dad's old rifle, but it might actually need a new barrel. And thinking that it might need a new barrel got me to considering other calibers that I don't have.
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