Just a hunter
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Okay, so I don't know if this is the right place to post this but if it isn't will someone please move it for me?
I bought a used 338 RUM off GunBroker. The listing said it appears to have been barely used. The pictures looked to me like that was a fair statement. I received the rifle and brought it home a couple weeks ago but haven't really messed with it until tonight. It appears that it has never had a scope mounted on it and I don't see any signs of wear on the bolt face or anything obviously worn anywhere on the rifle as far as that goes. When I removed it from the stock it looks like it has never been out of the stock until now and it doesn't appear the trigger has been adjusted or replaced.
I always start cleaning the bore as soon as I get a new rifle but I have never bought a used rifle until this one so I am not sure what to expect. I cleaned the carbon with KG carbon remover until I couldn't get anything else out. I switched to KG Big Bore Cleaner and nothing showed up on the patches even after letting it sit in the bore for several minutes. I was excited at that point. I dried everything out good and ran some oil down the bore and was thinking I was done. Well, I tipped the barrel to an angle and looked at the muzzle and lo and behold it appears every single rifling at the muzzle end is coated in copper.
I have now run everything I have here except Sweet's down the barrel and can't get it to come out, I can't even get any color on the patches. I think the strongest thing I have tries so far is CR-10.
What do I do now? I have only brushed it maybe 5 strokes total so far. Do I brush more? Try a different solvent? Assume it is never going to come out? Give up and shoot it and forget it?
It's a 700 stainless that hasn't been made in several years. It was in the factory box and honest to goodness doesn't appear to have ever been shot hardly any, maybe even just the factory firing? Would it being left for a long time with the copper in it make it harder to get out?
Sorry for the long post and thank you in advance for any help you can offer.
I bought a used 338 RUM off GunBroker. The listing said it appears to have been barely used. The pictures looked to me like that was a fair statement. I received the rifle and brought it home a couple weeks ago but haven't really messed with it until tonight. It appears that it has never had a scope mounted on it and I don't see any signs of wear on the bolt face or anything obviously worn anywhere on the rifle as far as that goes. When I removed it from the stock it looks like it has never been out of the stock until now and it doesn't appear the trigger has been adjusted or replaced.
I always start cleaning the bore as soon as I get a new rifle but I have never bought a used rifle until this one so I am not sure what to expect. I cleaned the carbon with KG carbon remover until I couldn't get anything else out. I switched to KG Big Bore Cleaner and nothing showed up on the patches even after letting it sit in the bore for several minutes. I was excited at that point. I dried everything out good and ran some oil down the bore and was thinking I was done. Well, I tipped the barrel to an angle and looked at the muzzle and lo and behold it appears every single rifling at the muzzle end is coated in copper.
I have now run everything I have here except Sweet's down the barrel and can't get it to come out, I can't even get any color on the patches. I think the strongest thing I have tries so far is CR-10.
What do I do now? I have only brushed it maybe 5 strokes total so far. Do I brush more? Try a different solvent? Assume it is never going to come out? Give up and shoot it and forget it?
It's a 700 stainless that hasn't been made in several years. It was in the factory box and honest to goodness doesn't appear to have ever been shot hardly any, maybe even just the factory firing? Would it being left for a long time with the copper in it make it harder to get out?
Sorry for the long post and thank you in advance for any help you can offer.