As wayne1027 discovered, there is a bit of a delay for new members before the direct message option is available (this happened to me as well, but I was able to send a message to Mr. Wood a few days after joining this forum).
Huge thanks to Mr. Wood for providing an excellent quality product at an incredibly reasonable price! I found colimr's suggestion very helpful - a wad of cleaning patches with string attached was very easy to retrieve with a patch worm and sped up the cleanup process.
The only sandpaper available locally was purple 3M with a "no-slip grip durable backing" - removing this plastic coating with solvent took only a few seconds and left me with paper of appropriate thickness. Mr. Wood's included instructions are excellent, and I'd recommend new users pay particular attention to the note that "the first 1/4" or so of the paper at the bottom of the taper should show no wear when you remove it" - an easy visual confirmation that your combination of paper/adhesive/tape is not too thick. Hopefully work and weather cooperate and I can get to the range soon - I'll be testing a Kibler Colonial that was shooting way high and way left (rear sight drifted so far to compensate that the dovetail was visible) so I wasn't overly concerned with removing the barrel's factory crown.
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