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Need help! Rifle shootimg way off!
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<blockquote data-quote="WildRose" data-source="post: 2443137" data-attributes="member: 30902"><p>You need to get it to a gunsmith.</p><p></p><p>The .204 is notorious for both building up a carbon ring that can cause catastrophic case failures and for burning throats out.</p><p></p><p>I thought I'd shot the throat out of mine and was planning to rebarrel when I sent it to my smith to inspect. He said the fire cracking I was seeing wasn't as much erosion as it was a huge buildup of carbon.</p><p></p><p>He taught me a few ways to deal with a carbon ring but this one was so bad his helper worked on it an hour a day for a week or more and finally got it out. I was just too busy to put that kind of time into it at the time.</p><p></p><p>Either way I would not fire yours again without first having it inspected by a qualified gunsmith. I say that not just as a five decade shooter of high velocity varmint killers but also as a certified and licensed firearms instructor. This is not something I would screw around with at all.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WildRose, post: 2443137, member: 30902"] You need to get it to a gunsmith. The .204 is notorious for both building up a carbon ring that can cause catastrophic case failures and for burning throats out. I thought I'd shot the throat out of mine and was planning to rebarrel when I sent it to my smith to inspect. He said the fire cracking I was seeing wasn't as much erosion as it was a huge buildup of carbon. He taught me a few ways to deal with a carbon ring but this one was so bad his helper worked on it an hour a day for a week or more and finally got it out. I was just too busy to put that kind of time into it at the time. Either way I would not fire yours again without first having it inspected by a qualified gunsmith. I say that not just as a five decade shooter of high velocity varmint killers but also as a certified and licensed firearms instructor. This is not something I would screw around with at all. [/QUOTE]
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