Good luck.
New Stag arms upper with pitted worn out barrel?
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Good luck.
Hard chrome doesn't simply "smooth out after a couple hundred rounds"...
However if it's caked crap, shooting it will take that crap right out. I'd say shoot it, clean it, and see how it looks.
And try to take a picture that is better focused on the grooves.
If it is preserved oil, don't shoot it. It will just make it worse.
Ask me how I know....I forgot to clean some brand new barrels with preservative oil.before shooting it. you will just burn what oil and residue even more onto the bore. Looking at the dirty patches coming out from the bore, this is most likely the case. Colt USA likes to dunk their guns in oil, and STAG Arms being a contractor for Colt inherited this practice. I had a STAG years ago they used the same preservative oil, generously.
I will call back and tell the manager this is not acceptable. Next step is to call stag arms. Show them the picture with all the black patches coming out.
Ask me how I know....I forgot to clean some brand new barrels with preservative oil.before shooting it. you will just burn what oil and residue even more onto the bore. Looking at the dirty patches coming out from the bore, this is most likely the case. Colt USA likes to dunk their guns in oil, and STAG Arms being a contractor for Colt inherited this practice. I had a STAG years ago they used the same preservative oil, generously.
I will call back and tell the manager this is not acceptable. Next step is to call stag arms. Show them the picture with all the black patches coming out.
What kind of preservative oil do they use if it doesn't even come out with brushes?
EDIT: OP used a plastic brush tho...
Well I took it to a well known gunsmith today who is a member here and he looked up the bore and his exact words were "it looks like its a hundred years old" after that i did as instructed by the manager on the phone and fired it. The gunsmith just shrugged... I put about 60 rounds through it and it got progressively worse. I was able to get two holes on either side of the head on a figure 11. Aiming at the center of the target. At 100 yards. As the shooting progressed the pattern opened up. So i just stopped wasting ammo at this point. I called the company back today and just missed the manager. He is going to call me in the morning. I am going to try and get some good pictures this evening
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p.Rundle
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I wonder if they only partially chromed your bore somehow because the damage to it seriously looks like it wouldn't be physically possible if it were chromed. Check the barrel and see if it says HPT/MPI on it by the manufacturers stamps.
