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Village Idiot
This is a copy/paste from a fellow collector who can shoot the lights out with any of his Mosin snipers-
"Basically you get light canvas and cut a strip about 3/4 of an inch wide and seven inches long or so. You put some light oil on it if you live in a damp climate and wrap it three of four times around the barrel above the front sling slot area. Then just carefully put the stock on again.
(You can keep from scraping off shellac if you spread out your barrel bands with a small screwdriver before pushing them off.)
I have also tried putting a small thin suede shim above the barrel under the foreward handguard, with good results on some rifles -you just need to experiment".
