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<blockquote data-quote="John Sherman" data-source="post: 4237181" data-attributes="member: 44763">Mr. Mashburn&nbsp; shot bench rest with my fly fishing mentor, Thom Green, who was a geological engineer for Wilcox petroleum. I don&#039;t know Thom shot but I can tell you he was the best fly caster I have ever seen in real life. I bought a Remington a 700 ADL in 7mm magand it shot patterns instead of groups! Thom set me up with a friend of his that was also a bench rest shooter to help me with that rifle. Charlie Newman was his name and he had articles in almost every issue of NRA&#039;s magazine. He showed me how to glass bed a rifle, he worked over the trigger and had me lap the bore with a knurled brass lap with a mixture of rig grease and diamond dust. He said to push the lap down the bore until it &quot;felt like sticking an ice pick into a piece of hard cheese.&quot; That rifle went from shooting 2 1/2&quot; patterns to shooting one hole 5 shot groups.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="John Sherman, post: 4237181, member: 44763"] Mr. Mashburn shot bench rest with my fly fishing mentor, Thom Green, who was a geological engineer for Wilcox petroleum. I don't know Thom shot but I can tell you he was the best fly caster I have ever seen in real life. I bought a Remington a 700 ADL in 7mm mag and it shot patterns instead of groups! Thom set me up with a friend of his that was also a bench rest shooter to help me with that rifle. Charlie Newman was his name and he had articles in almost every issue of NRA's magazine. He showed me how to glass bed a rifle, he worked over the trigger and had me lap the bore with a knurled brass lap with a mixture of rig grease and diamond dust. He said to push the lap down the bore until it "felt like sticking an ice pick into a piece of hard cheese." That rifle went from shooting 2 1/2" patterns to shooting one hole 5 shot groups. [/QUOTE]

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