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Performance wise, no. I just broke it down because I was cleaning the barrel and decided to have a look. There was a LOT of brown goop in the in the firing pin channel and still a goodly bit of grease (looked like cosmoline but thicker) on the threads. Hosed everything down with One Shot, used Q-Tip, rags and little nylon brushes to scrub what was accessible, let it dry for a few minutes, and blew out the the excess (read in the roll pins and the extractor grooves. Put a dab of synthetic grease on the cocking piece threads and put it back together. I'll be honest and say it "feels" smoother but that could be just getting all the detritus from the ammo/stuff that wears off as the bolt laps in -or- I'm in denial.
Gonna take it out later and see if it I got it back together right! :lol:
@AirGunShawn Good info all the way around! I dive too and during my last trip to the cenotes (NSS-CDS advanced cave driver) in the Yucatan I had a burst disc pop. If it hadn't been for the spare set of doubles I had I would have been stuck as top side tender
Pro Tip... Creative air fills can bite you in the ass! 4200PSI on Scuba Pro steel 100s sends people running for cover and you damn sure want to point the pressure gauge away from you when you crack the valve
As for the Bergara... I should have scrubbed it stem to stern as soon as I got it but I overlooked the bolt. They are NASTY from the factory and with good reason I assume. Broke my own rule with this one. Lesson learned and I'll check out those potions and lotions you mentioned! Can't make it to Lapua this year but hoping to take a week and hand deliver it sometime in 2022. Hopefully a time of year when it is "cooler" in Mesa. Lastly that is a good looking Bergara! I like how you filled in the logo! Here's mine...
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Nikon,
Are those aftermarket adjustment wheels under your cheek piece? I hate to spend 295.00 on my Atlas bi-pods but they are very nice.
I know you appreciate yours.....
I wish I would have gotten the black stock but it's still a nice rifle for the money. I also hang-glide and rock climb. If your not willing to be responsible for yourself and make superior decisions, buy quality equipment, take lessons when your supposed to... you just wont last very long.
I've never done cave but I have done some thin Ice diving. It keeps you on your game and adds an entirely different dimension to diving. Night diving with sharks adds dimensions as well.! ( SCARY ) I have spent a fair amount of time with one of my instructors trailing her students. It's amazing how much you a persons body language will tell you. You can tell when someone is freaking out and about to bolt to the surface. I've seen it happen and when it does, people jump in the water, pull the guy out, cut his gear off and ambulance him to the ER. Gilboa quarry in Ohio is a great place to learn to dive. It has lots of stuff in it with really good Vis. It's also big and 140 foot deep. I want to mention that any gear that protects me or a fellow diver, climber etc. was bought new and kept serviced. I wear a parachute while flying and we have deployment practice, inspection and re-pack every six months.
When my climbing ropes that are still like new, but reach their five year service life, I cut them in half and repurpose them. It sucks but I'm not willing to risk injuring me or my climbing partner.
Nikon.... You know.... You can send your action to Lapua and they will test it for you and send you the results. That is the way I have done my 4 rifles. All they want is the BA, mounting screws and magazine.
I know that Lapua in Arizona has a fixture for your B14R. I'm going to be sending in my 1971 Anschutz 54 ( target below ) and Kimber 82G very soon. The testing is $50.00 for each rifle and that is waived if you buy two cases of ammo. You would need to check with Ohio.
As far as the enamel or lacquer finger nail polish in the Bergara logo...... I tape off the area and then hap hazardly paint over the entire logo and surrounding area. Then I take a thin flexible piece of rubber or plastic ( Bondo scraper is shown ) to remove the bulk of it like a windshield wiper does. Then I wrap my scraper with a piece of paper towel and get it damp with a small amount of lacquer thinner to remove the surrounding ghost or shadow. By wrapping the scraper, and using on it's edge as shown, you minimize the removal of color from the engraved area. After a short time, you can apply this to rounded features as well. It's a three minute procedure that turns out pretty crisp. I tried Lacquer pencils from Brownell's and could never get good, crisp, even fill like the factory gets.
btw... best flight stats: 35 miles, 2.5 hours aloft and just over 7000 AGL. George was still flying when he was 85. My hero !!
Everybody...Please... Break out of your comfort zone and do more than you think you can! Life is short but it doesn't have to be boring.
). Any diving that involves an overhead component has got to be taken seriously! I’ve done the stupidest of the stupid (sort of). Back in the day (18 years old) I dove Ginnie Springs. We made it to the “Bone Room”. At some point it crossed my mind that we were 2500 feet back into the system at a depth of 140 feet but the passage was only 6 feet high. So about 134 feet or solid rock over our head and a half mile swim out if things went bad. Hence no solo dives, 2 complete regulators, 2 tanks with a shut off in between, 3 lights, and a reel with 600 feet of line on it (enough to clip off to the main line in the system). Lots of practice doing lights out, on your buddies spare, feeling your way out! Everything got rebuilt on the regular. I’ve known and lost too many friends and mentors of the sport to things they couldn’t control. That said it’s a sport I adore and wish I could do more often! My old man was a hang glider but I never caught the bug! 
