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good evening fellas. what are y'alls thoughts on wrapping a piece of electrical tape over the muzzle of your rifle during hunting? i am curious as to whether it will bulge the barrel due to back pressure when the rifle is fired. it would be nice to do such a thing to protect the crown and muzzle from debris. what are y'alls thoughts on this please. are there any negative effects to doing this to the rifle?

It would be some bad ass tape or a barrel made from aluminum foil that would bulge due to tape.



Blue tape makes your rifle more accurate

The blue tape makes your rifle shoot harder.

Taping the muzzle absolutely works to keep it clean, and it blows off without creating any unsafe back pressure.

You can wrap extra tape around your barrel so that you have spares after firing. That is what you will notice in lots of the pictures on here of guys out hunting.

On a recent hunting trip my rifle shot well with black electrical tape, Never had much luck with green or red. Actually, guy I was hunting with fell in the snow without tape and had a mess getting his barrel cleaned out without going back to camp.

so, its a general consensus that a wrap of electrical,whatever color floats your boat,tape will NOT harm your barrel due to any back pressure issue? i've been wrapping for the past couple times deer hunting but haven't fired a shot thru the tape as of yet. i'll tell y'all it does give me pause to shoot thru something over my barrel but i just have to trust you fellas as to not lead me astray.

A balloon in your choice of color will work too.

Blue tape only works on .270's

I've been putting electrical tape over the muzzles of my rifles since the 80's.

Tape doesn't always want to stick to a oiled barrel.
I like to use latex finger bandage covers. They are durable and cheap, good to have in your first aid kit too.

And .350 Rem. Mags

If you go to the "Deer Hunting" or "Elk Hunting" forums on this site and just look at pictures, you'll see lots of taped muzzles. Most of the folks I know have used it for years.

I only use 3M black electrical tape on My .300 Win rifles as any colored tape will Change My POI 😀........Hb

just to be clear. folks shoot thru the tape right? not unwrap when it shooting time? if so i gotta get past that and just do it.

Do it. It works. As far as I can tell accuracy and POI are unaffected. Others have mentioned and maybe someone has taken high speed video to confirm, but I believe that the tape blows off well before the bullet reaches the muzzle. It’s the column of air sitting in front of the bullet that blows the tape away so you are not technically shooting “through” anything.

I use black balloons (available at party stores), I refer to them as gun "condoms". No adhesive residue on barrel, easy to carry a couple extra ones, never had one come off, but maybe you could tear one up scraping your muzzle up against branches and such going through thick stuff.

I've put electrical tape over my muzzles since the 70's. The air in front of the bullet blows the tape off.

Blue tape scares deers...

Ever have, never will....

Looks like we have a competition here, one poster has done it since the 80’s, one has done it since the 70’s!!!! Laffin