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Weatherby Mark V (Germany) 7mm WBY Mag - 7mm REM Mag Fired Through It - "Won't Shoot Strait" - Weird Obstruction?
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<blockquote data-quote="pacowboy" data-source="post: 2580451" data-attributes="member: 8669"><p>Looks to me like it needs a really good deep cleaning and then rescoped. As a machinist there is no way with the dimensions you gave (I didn't look them up myself) that there could be a "sleeve" from a 7 Rem mag and have a 7 WBY chamber. There does "appear" to be a crack inside that circle from the enlarged photo but I have my doubts that there is. I do believe that that is where the belt would sit in the chamber and it looks very dirty to me with brass particles and possibly carbon. As I said above I would give it an extreme cleaning and send the bore scope in again. Take pics after cleaning. If you can't get it to shoot after that I would take it to a gunsmith. </p><p></p><p>And as a side note: If you plan to reload for it in the future, don't worry about the belt when head spacing. I have a 300 Win Mag, custom 6.5-300 Wby (my great uncle built in the 1970s) and a custom 7mm-300 Wby (my dad built the 1980's) and I don't worry about the belt for headspacing on any of them.</p><p></p><p>Good luck with this gun. The worst case scenario is it gets a new barrel.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pacowboy, post: 2580451, member: 8669"] Looks to me like it needs a really good deep cleaning and then rescoped. As a machinist there is no way with the dimensions you gave (I didn't look them up myself) that there could be a "sleeve" from a 7 Rem mag and have a 7 WBY chamber. There does "appear" to be a crack inside that circle from the enlarged photo but I have my doubts that there is. I do believe that that is where the belt would sit in the chamber and it looks very dirty to me with brass particles and possibly carbon. As I said above I would give it an extreme cleaning and send the bore scope in again. Take pics after cleaning. If you can't get it to shoot after that I would take it to a gunsmith. And as a side note: If you plan to reload for it in the future, don't worry about the belt when head spacing. I have a 300 Win Mag, custom 6.5-300 Wby (my great uncle built in the 1970s) and a custom 7mm-300 Wby (my dad built the 1980's) and I don't worry about the belt for headspacing on any of them. Good luck with this gun. The worst case scenario is it gets a new barrel. [/QUOTE]
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