{"id":5977,"date":"2013-08-20T05:00:37","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T10:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=5977"},"modified":"2013-08-20T05:00:37","modified_gmt":"2013-08-20T10:00:37","slug":"after-the-africa-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=5977","title":{"rendered":"After the Africa match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(At which someone took a LOT of pictures, I  hope they post the damned things soon!) which I shot with the 45-70 barrels, not having the ammo count for the match in 500 nitro, I put on the 500 barrels and let another couple guys shoot it. There is an amazing grin associated with big rifles, even if you&#8217;re not a recoil junkie like me. <\/p>\n<p>So I used a pullthrough while I was there, and tonight sat down to give both barrels and the receiver a good and thorough cleaning. <\/p>\n<p>I have a one piece wooden cleaning rod I have made specific to the purpose, not liking to think about metal on metal in the barrel, even though my portable cleaning rod is brass. <\/p>\n<p>Scrubbing the doubles and looking down them to see clean, perfect rifling is a very satisfying thing. Parking them in the case and then sliding it back under the bed is like stashing away a thick pile of silver certificates. I certainly sleep well when it&#8217;s there. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(At which someone took a LOT of pictures, I hope they post the damned things soon!) which I shot with the 45-70 barrels, not having the ammo count for the match in 500 nitro, I put on the 500 barrels and let another couple guys shoot it. There is an amazing grin associated with big [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5977"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}