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Whats My Borescope Telling Me
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<blockquote data-quote="QuietTexan" data-source="post: 2907251" data-attributes="member: 116181"><p>I don't have anything to say about the rifle in general, but rather the bore specifically:</p><p></p><p>Looks about like several I've had. Like you I've seen awful barrels shoot, usually after they copper up but before they copper out (pretty narrow window).</p><p></p><p>I got really really serious about cleaning up a barrel that was worse than this one, to the point I kind of tried to ruin it. I used as stainless steel wire brush, and JB Bore Paste (blue tub) on VFG pellets with Kroil to try to polish it without actually using polish (red tub). It did kind of smooth out the bore in general and helped with coppering up. Since this is a 30-06 and a repeater, you might want to try running a Tubbs final finish kit down it to see if that helps the coppering up and gives you more of a window to work with. It will almost certainly move the throat out, but given that you're probably already jumping quite a bit at mag length that shouldn't hurt much. I'm not saying in any way you'll get under an inch doing this, but you should at least have more shots to work with before it goes to pot.</p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.davidtubb.com/final-finish-bullet-kits/finalfinish-bulletkit-308[/URL]</p><p></p><p>Didn't see anywhere that they type of ammo was mentioned (sorry if I missed that). I love 30-06, but man there is some absolute junk ammo out there that is slow, piggy garbage that doesn't group for anything. I don't know if he handloads at all, but it's not hard to produce better than factory ammo using economical equipment in this specific cartridge. I went through something like 10 different types of factory before I found something my A-Bolt would group ~1MOA more than once with. Not even consistently, just did it twice instead of once or never. I beat all that factory ammo with the very first handloads I ever made on a Lee press using a powder dipper.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="QuietTexan, post: 2907251, member: 116181"] I don't have anything to say about the rifle in general, but rather the bore specifically: Looks about like several I've had. Like you I've seen awful barrels shoot, usually after they copper up but before they copper out (pretty narrow window). I got really really serious about cleaning up a barrel that was worse than this one, to the point I kind of tried to ruin it. I used as stainless steel wire brush, and JB Bore Paste (blue tub) on VFG pellets with Kroil to try to polish it without actually using polish (red tub). It did kind of smooth out the bore in general and helped with coppering up. Since this is a 30-06 and a repeater, you might want to try running a Tubbs final finish kit down it to see if that helps the coppering up and gives you more of a window to work with. It will almost certainly move the throat out, but given that you're probably already jumping quite a bit at mag length that shouldn't hurt much. I'm not saying in any way you'll get under an inch doing this, but you should at least have more shots to work with before it goes to pot. [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.davidtubb.com/final-finish-bullet-kits/finalfinish-bulletkit-308[/URL] Didn't see anywhere that they type of ammo was mentioned (sorry if I missed that). I love 30-06, but man there is some absolute junk ammo out there that is slow, piggy garbage that doesn't group for anything. I don't know if he handloads at all, but it's not hard to produce better than factory ammo using economical equipment in this specific cartridge. I went through something like 10 different types of factory before I found something my A-Bolt would group ~1MOA more than once with. Not even consistently, just did it twice instead of once or never. I beat all that factory ammo with the very first handloads I ever made on a Lee press using a powder dipper. [/QUOTE]
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