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Inspecting a factory rifle before purchase
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<blockquote data-quote="Frog4aday" data-source="post: 1759716" data-attributes="member: 9308"><p>This was a good article for inspecting a USED rifle before purchase, but in reading it, a lot of the same checks would be appropriate for a NEW rifle.</p><p><a href="https://gundigest.com/article/inspect-used-rifle" target="_blank">https://gundigest.com/article/inspect-used-rifle</a></p><p></p><p>As for a scratch or some other cosmetic defect, you'd have to decide for yourself if it was acceptable or not. As you noted, if the gun is going to get knocked around and dinged up from hunting anyway, perhaps you aren't too picky about a minor flaw in the stock or metal work under those circumstances. But if you paid top dollar for a fine quality rifle you'd expect it to be near immaculate, and anything less would be a reject.</p><p></p><p>Most interesting rifle 'problem' I found was the trigger dropping (firing) as the bolt was being lowered on a bolt action (about 50% of the time.) Uh...that's not good! Turned out the guy bedded the action lug but not the tang and when the tang screw got tightened, it was enough to bend the action slightly so the sear wouldn't hold properly. Bedding the tang fixed the problem, but that would probably be a rifle you don't accept and would send back.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Frog4aday, post: 1759716, member: 9308"] This was a good article for inspecting a USED rifle before purchase, but in reading it, a lot of the same checks would be appropriate for a NEW rifle. [URL]https://gundigest.com/article/inspect-used-rifle[/URL] As for a scratch or some other cosmetic defect, you'd have to decide for yourself if it was acceptable or not. As you noted, if the gun is going to get knocked around and dinged up from hunting anyway, perhaps you aren't too picky about a minor flaw in the stock or metal work under those circumstances. But if you paid top dollar for a fine quality rifle you'd expect it to be near immaculate, and anything less would be a reject. Most interesting rifle 'problem' I found was the trigger dropping (firing) as the bolt was being lowered on a bolt action (about 50% of the time.) Uh...that's not good! Turned out the guy bedded the action lug but not the tang and when the tang screw got tightened, it was enough to bend the action slightly so the sear wouldn't hold properly. Bedding the tang fixed the problem, but that would probably be a rifle you don't accept and would send back. [/QUOTE]
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