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Is my Bergara Bergarbage?
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<blockquote data-quote="25WSM" data-source="post: 1914591" data-attributes="member: 38048"><p>On a hunting weight barrel you got one chance to get the chamber straight. You can set it back a turn or 2 if you go to deep or get a ring in it but that's it. On a straight 5 inch heavy varmint shank you can cut all the threads off and redial in the bore and then use a boring bar to get it running straight again and then rechamber it. But you can't do this on a hunting barrel. So the description they gave you is pretty vague. And just fixing the crown didn't shrink your groups by 3 times. I've seen crowns that look like they were polished with concrete shoot moa. To get your rifle to go from 3 inch groups to 1/2 inch groups they would of had to put a new barrel on it. That's a huge change. I personally have never shot a rifle that shot that big. I have seen some real junk come to my shop. I've seen barrels with fire cracking half way up the bore still shoot moa. I worked on a Tikka that shot 1.5 moa and I told the guy most tikkas shoot 1/2 moa and that I would go over it for him. I found that 1 inch back from the crown there was a half inch section of barrel with no rifling. I told him I could cut it off and recrown it or send it back to tikka. I cut it off for him and it shot jagged holes. But the point is with rifling missing it still shot twice as good as this bergara. Something had to be way off to make it shoot 3 inches. </p><p>Shep</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="25WSM, post: 1914591, member: 38048"] On a hunting weight barrel you got one chance to get the chamber straight. You can set it back a turn or 2 if you go to deep or get a ring in it but that's it. On a straight 5 inch heavy varmint shank you can cut all the threads off and redial in the bore and then use a boring bar to get it running straight again and then rechamber it. But you can't do this on a hunting barrel. So the description they gave you is pretty vague. And just fixing the crown didn't shrink your groups by 3 times. I've seen crowns that look like they were polished with concrete shoot moa. To get your rifle to go from 3 inch groups to 1/2 inch groups they would of had to put a new barrel on it. That's a huge change. I personally have never shot a rifle that shot that big. I have seen some real junk come to my shop. I've seen barrels with fire cracking half way up the bore still shoot moa. I worked on a Tikka that shot 1.5 moa and I told the guy most tikkas shoot 1/2 moa and that I would go over it for him. I found that 1 inch back from the crown there was a half inch section of barrel with no rifling. I told him I could cut it off and recrown it or send it back to tikka. I cut it off for him and it shot jagged holes. But the point is with rifling missing it still shot twice as good as this bergara. Something had to be way off to make it shoot 3 inches. Shep [/QUOTE]
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