Woohoo! A straight barrel at last!

[lizzie]

[GarthThomas]

How does that go, necessity is the mother of invention. Good thinking.

[gamo2hammerli]

Pretty neat contraption.  My friend's Stoger X5 came with a bend barrel.  We were shooting by some railway tracks (Guess you know what I did next)....and I got permission from him to stick the barrel under one of the tracks and lift up (With a t-shirt between the barrel and track).  After a few tries he was able to hit the targets with the scope adjusted back to center (It had ran out of left-right adjustment).

[lizzie]

Pretty neat contraption.  My friend's Stoger X5 came with a bend barrel.  We were shooting by some railway tracks (Guess you know what I did next)....and I got permission from him to stick the barrel under one of the tracks and lift up (With a t-shirt between the barrel and track).  After a few tries he was able to hit the targets with the scope adjusted back to center (It had ran out of left-right adjustment).

What I didn't mention is the center hardware piece in the photos, and what its use is. I have a couple of short sections of black pipe that are large enough to fit over the barrel, but small enough to fit inside the "U" portion of that piece (sorry, but I forget what it's called). I can slip the short pipe piece over the center section of the barrel (protected with a thin piece of leather), and pull tension over several inches of barrel simultaneously. This was how I did the final phase of the barrel-straightening. It's unbelievable how accurately that gun is shooting now.