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Weatherby Vanguard
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<blockquote data-quote="Scot E" data-source="post: 1134521" data-attributes="member: 10832"><p>A couple suggestions. Not sure how old that gun is but some of them must have the barrel floated to shoot well. Often times the results are dramatic! I would not wait on this. You don't always have to get a new stock either. Even on their cheapo all plastic stocks before they went to the aluminum bedded ones, I could just relieve the barrel area on them and get significant improvement. </p><p></p><p>Also, I have helped fix a few poorly broken in Howa/Vanguard barrels and I would suggest the following. </p><p></p><p>First continue to remove all of the copper after each session. Clean it down to bare metal. It won't shoot as well at first but there is a reason for this process. One thing that sometimes happens on a rough barrel is that no break-in is done and when that happens there is no chance for the first few bullets to begin smoothing out the barrel. Instead the imperfections are just filled with copper which not only makes them impossible to smooth out but also creates areas where copper is extracted from each bullet making for a nasty fouling barrel and one that often times creates flyers and a quick loss of accuracy. I would personally clean every 4-5 shots just to make sure your bullets are traveling down a clean barrel. I have a strong feeling you will see the fouling and accuracy issues go away or decrease significantly after doing this. </p><p>If the above does not fix all of this to your liking I would do an HBN treatment for a few rounds. There have been consistent and very good results found by those treating a rough barrel with HBN. </p><p></p><p> Based on the good results you are sporadically getting I have a feeling you have a great shooter just waiting to be found!</p><p></p><p>To clarify, some barrels don't need as much work as I am stating because they are good from the get-go and/or were broken in properly but if there are some minor imperfections and they aren't dealt with correctly at the beginning, it does take some work to fix the issue but it is almost always fixable.</p><p></p><p>Howa/Vanguards are very accurate out of the box. One of the most consistent IMO. </p><p></p><p>Good Luck!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Scot E, post: 1134521, member: 10832"] A couple suggestions. Not sure how old that gun is but some of them must have the barrel floated to shoot well. Often times the results are dramatic! I would not wait on this. You don't always have to get a new stock either. Even on their cheapo all plastic stocks before they went to the aluminum bedded ones, I could just relieve the barrel area on them and get significant improvement. Also, I have helped fix a few poorly broken in Howa/Vanguard barrels and I would suggest the following. First continue to remove all of the copper after each session. Clean it down to bare metal. It won't shoot as well at first but there is a reason for this process. One thing that sometimes happens on a rough barrel is that no break-in is done and when that happens there is no chance for the first few bullets to begin smoothing out the barrel. Instead the imperfections are just filled with copper which not only makes them impossible to smooth out but also creates areas where copper is extracted from each bullet making for a nasty fouling barrel and one that often times creates flyers and a quick loss of accuracy. I would personally clean every 4-5 shots just to make sure your bullets are traveling down a clean barrel. I have a strong feeling you will see the fouling and accuracy issues go away or decrease significantly after doing this. If the above does not fix all of this to your liking I would do an HBN treatment for a few rounds. There have been consistent and very good results found by those treating a rough barrel with HBN. Based on the good results you are sporadically getting I have a feeling you have a great shooter just waiting to be found! To clarify, some barrels don't need as much work as I am stating because they are good from the get-go and/or were broken in properly but if there are some minor imperfections and they aren't dealt with correctly at the beginning, it does take some work to fix the issue but it is almost always fixable. Howa/Vanguards are very accurate out of the box. One of the most consistent IMO. Good Luck! [/QUOTE]
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