Thread: Longest continuously owned firearms

Originally Posted by grandpamac

At one time, in the dim and distant past, small bore target shooters would "kiss the bullet". The idea being that the saliva would soften the wax coating I suppose.
GPM.
PS. Perhaps @Maca49 did not have a shirt pocket to put the spare slug in.

yeah don't remember that at small bore but we used a little pottle of never Nickle at full bore with our 303 little grey alloy container (still have one ) dip bullet in sorry just the projectile in - the container had a felt washer at the top so it was just a smear on projectile and fire