The $100 challenge.....

So it turns out on my specimen of a gun, that the cylinder does not sit flush with the ribbing in the gun.
Basically the rib next to the rear stock to cylinder screw, sits higher, causing quite a few of the end/middle ribs to be doing nothing. Seems the most likely cause of why the barrel is pointing slightly downwards.
When I checked the square of the barrel out of the stock in relation to to the cylinder, closed, it was strait as far as I could see against a flat edge.
Now a good man with new dremel such as me self, would level it down.
I on the other hand (still not have gotten around to my shock gel experiment) , have instead gone absolutely mental with a silicone so the cylinder now has a silicone bed between it and the stock. This has also filled the gaps between ribs and stock.
Also built up just behind the last rib where the screw goes through stock for extra contact. Will it work your guess is as good as mine, find out in 24 hours when it cures. My theory being that I'll now have a more even dispersal of the shock and a better all round contact to stock.
Went to town on the central pin through piston, and smoothed it all down, the crap they coated it with is rough as. Hopefully now it will have much less grip going through the guide.
Haven't put trigger adjusting screw through front of trigger gaurd as I didn't realise how far back the trigger sits, that may not be viable, will see later.

All number 8 wire here!

Well I've decided to make a muzzel brake for mine...... Clearly only cosmetic haha

It will complement the stock colour well Billbob.
Being a fan of the ironic, can't think of a gun more suited to the irony. 😂

Should turn up a can for it.
You make the mag, I'll send you down the a bipod and you can make it a. Machine gun replicate.
Worlds first break barrel, single shot machine gun. Army's will be screaming out for it.

I had used fibreglass bog to bed a springer years ago. I wrapped the action in gladwrap and fixed it into the stock filled with bog. It worked well. It was a wood stock I had made, so it didn't need as much as a hollow synthetic stock would need.