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What am I seeing in my barrel?
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<blockquote data-quote="Tac-O" data-source="post: 1956348" data-attributes="member: 109994"><p>Thanks for all the replies and advice!</p><p></p><p>I definitely don't plan on cleaning or scrubbing my bores any more than I usually do. In fact, I may just quit cleaning them again since I now have a borescope to educate myself on the efficacy of my cleaning efforts when the bore is really dirty! I've certainly heard of guns that shoot well that are missing chunks of rifling, so I'm not too worried! </p><p></p><p>I am a little worried about the crown on the savage though. I know how important the crown is and it's quite ugly. But, it's my kids'gun and they really only need to be able to shoot 2moa this year. But maybe I should use it as an excuse to get them a nicer one <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😀" title="Grinning face :grinning:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" data-shortname=":grinning:" /> we'll see how it shoots after cleaning. One thing I found when taking the action out of the stock was what looked like tons of teeny tiny metal ball bearings coming out of the recoil lug slot on the barrel nut!!! Maybe it's leftover machining junk? It wasn't there when I stripped the gun right after buying it to clean it all. I have reseated the action and screws a couple times since new (without completely disassembling and looking inside) so maybe some of that slag stuff got into the recoil lug and bedding area and caused the decreased accuracy.</p><p></p><p>I gave both rifles a few strokes of JBs and PB blaster penetrating oil (don't have any kroil). I'll out up pics of each post cleaning.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tac-O, post: 1956348, member: 109994"] Thanks for all the replies and advice! I definitely don't plan on cleaning or scrubbing my bores any more than I usually do. In fact, I may just quit cleaning them again since I now have a borescope to educate myself on the efficacy of my cleaning efforts when the bore is really dirty! I've certainly heard of guns that shoot well that are missing chunks of rifling, so I'm not too worried! I am a little worried about the crown on the savage though. I know how important the crown is and it's quite ugly. But, it's my kids'gun and they really only need to be able to shoot 2moa this year. But maybe I should use it as an excuse to get them a nicer one 😀 we'll see how it shoots after cleaning. One thing I found when taking the action out of the stock was what looked like tons of teeny tiny metal ball bearings coming out of the recoil lug slot on the barrel nut!!! Maybe it's leftover machining junk? It wasn't there when I stripped the gun right after buying it to clean it all. I have reseated the action and screws a couple times since new (without completely disassembling and looking inside) so maybe some of that slag stuff got into the recoil lug and bedding area and caused the decreased accuracy. I gave both rifles a few strokes of JBs and PB blaster penetrating oil (don't have any kroil). I'll out up pics of each post cleaning. [/QUOTE]
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