5RGenII disappointment in quality control

[Wrcassell21]

Just purchased and received a rem 700 5R genii in 300 win. Noticed when I got home that the crown was marred, I am not sure if it extends into the rifling , but it did pass the Qtip test when I inserted a Qtip it did not snag as drug around barrel crown.
Should I send back to Remington , pay local smith, or shoot and see how/if affected?

 

[westcliffe01]

You know that you will never be satisfied with that... If it was me, I would have a competent smith put a recessed crown on it so something like that can never happen again.

Of course if you do that, you will probably immediately void the warranty on the barrel.

Perhaps best to shoot it and verify if you get heavy fouling on that particular land. If it shoots fairly decent, I would re-crown it.. If it was terrible I would return it to Rem unmolested. Of course they might say that you could have dented it yourself...

 

[Varminator 911]

There was a post on here recently of someone who took a dremel tool to the crown of a 308. The damage was much worse than yours before it affected accuracy. I'd shoot it first and see had it does. Might shoot great just like that.

 

[Wrcassell21]

Was yours marred like mine? I would expect it to be under a half Moa rifle?

 

[Varminator 911]

Check this out:

http://www.longrangehunting.com/forums/f5/over-rated-crown-106394/

 

[tbrice23]

PTG sells a re-crowning too with floating pilot. I bought mine from Brownells to re-crown a SASS barrel that arrived at my door with the unprotected muzzle sticking out of the box a huge dent in the crown.
The tool works great.

 

[Wrcassell21]

Not to mention the barrel is threaded, would a muzzle break help resolve potential issues if no bur is felt?

 

[westcliffe01]

So remind me again, what size groups did the rifle shoot before the crown was messed with ?

I watched an AR-15 torture test where I think over 5000 rounds of various cheap 223 ammo was shot through an AR-15 (several different rifles). The interesting thing is that the rifles shot like crap when brand new, and so it was virtually impossible to tell the accuracy degradation, even when there was basically no rifling left in 3/4 of the barrel. Start out 2MOA and perhaps 2.5 MOA with no rifling left. But if it started with a 0.5moa accuracy, then I think one would see a degradation.

Check this out:

http://www.longrangehunting.com/forums/f5/over-rated-crown-106394/

 

[Varminator 911]

There are pictures here: Much worse damage than yours and still shot 3/4 moa.

The Over-Rated Crown

 

[Wrcassell21]

@westcliff , I have not shot it , I just got it home new in box.

 

[MudRunner2005]

I would either do like tbrice said and get the Brownells crown cutting tool and do it by hand yourself, or have your local smitty cut a recessed target crown.

Being my smith lives 15 mins away and with my price break he gives me on work and his 1 week turn-around, I'd just take it to him and have him blueprint everything while he had it apart anyway.

I'm actually considering having him blueprint the action and open the chamber on my brand new unfired 26" 5R .300WM to build me a 2nd .300 Ackley, since I have no interest in owning a .300WM.

 

[FEENIX]

You know that you will never be satisfied with that... If it was me, I would have a competent smith put a recessed crown on it so something like that can never happen again.

Of course if you do that, you will probably immediately void the warranty on the barrel.

Perhaps best to shoot it and verify if you get heavy fouling on that particular land. If it shoots fairly decent, I would re-crown it.. If it was terrible I would return it to Rem unmolested. Of course they might say that you could have dented it yourself...

+1! Too bad the OP has to absorb the cost (in time and/or money) and disappointment for Remington's quality issue.

Hopefully, that's all the quality issue(s). I personally would just send it back and have it done right the first time, if that is truly the rifle that the OP wants.

 

[Waynzee]

Wrcassell21, I might catch so hell over what I'm going to say,well,I'm going to say it anyway. I would not buy "remdumbting" ever after what I went through with a 7-08 I bought a few years back. But, If your happy with your rifle DO NOT send it back. Most likely you won't see it for at least 3 months and then I doubt it will be fixed right. Like I said, If your happy with your rifle and the crown is an issue take it to a local gunsmith.
remdumbting used to be a real good rifle but quality control is real bad now. Also I've heard george soros has investments in remdumbting I don't know if that is true words.

 

[Wrcassell21]

I am very disappointed in their QC, and regretting not getting the Sako roughtech I had sought after