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Since the temporary fix costs nothing (however I'd recommend using a shim cut from a can of Shiner Bock Beer) my advice would be to shim it and shoot it for a while, if you decide after a period of time that the guns a keeper then pay the $$$ to have it properly repaired.
Steve

Don't you think a more vintage beer would be appropriate ?

Naaaah! It's a cheap shim job after all. But you may as well use a beer that's drinkable, Shiner Bock's not bad for a mass produced beer. It's strange, I remember when I lived in Texas back in the 70's and 80's Shiner beer was horrible, it always tasted stale, nowadays it's pretty good.
Steve

I spent 7 weeks in San Antonio in 1998 and noticed that I was the only guy drinking Lone Star, no matter what bar we were in!? As for the shim, I bought a set of feeler gages for $6.00 at my local hardware store and trimmed a piece from the proper thickness gage.

A .001 off face, your kidding, you could shoot 100 rounds with this gun every week for the next 10 years and maybe it would get worse.

Most here would like to have .001 off face.

I prefer Shiner bock over the 'Budweiser of Texas'....Lone Star, but I think Lone Star is at least as good as Bud. I'd rather have a Stella or Sapporo though when real thirsty. :-)I

+4 on the Shiner of Spoetzel, TX. Lance Armstrong was crazy about the stuff until he started "finding money" in Michelob Light cans. I rotate between Shiner Bock and Yuengling Lager, Pottsville, PA. I've never seen either in cans so's I guess I'd have to use something really bad like Pabst Red, White and Blue or maybe a Pepsi can. I think Dave is on to something there about the 1 mil off face. You could hit the breech end of the barrels with crocus cloth and create that "gap". Once upon a time, I put a coat of clear nail polish on the breech end (collar around the rim cuts) of an NID and could no longer see light. Lucky for some of us that frequently you can correct "large" gaps simply by moving the decimal pt.

jack

What the heck, I'll chime in. There's a bar in Portland, OR called the Lowbrow Lounge that has PBR and tater tots. Pretty tasty[and cheap] combo, although that's about the only beer in a can I like. I just saw that Redhook IPA is out in cans now however. Yummy.

If the gun is only .001 off face, wouldn't a shim make it too tight?

a little loose is like being a little pregnant!

Sounds to me like some of the responders know more about drinking beer than they do about fixing guns! The looseness is stated to be 0.001", but the beer can shim will be about 0.004" thick. I don't believe that will work.