Tim,
This is another Darne that I have acquired. What you probably remember is an R13 that I cleaned up. The R is very smooth and still tight.
I read somewhere on the Darne forum that some people prefer the R action to the V action just because the former is smoother.
This is a V20 that I found without a fitting stock. I just cut a stock for it and put it together.
This evening I polished a few thou from the breech end of the chambers to bring them to .812. THis seems to have eased the action closing and opening a little, but there is still quite a bit of increased resistance. If I close and open the action a few times with same rounds in the chambers, the operation becomes smoother as if the rounds are being reshaped. Once I go to new rounds the resistance grows back to where I know it.
I would be curious to know what Mr. Merrington found about yours.
