This barrel rifling look normal to you?

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I just sent this obscenely expensive rifle with a carbon barrel back for a few reasons. This is one of them. Does this look normal? What are those striations? I don't know if this barrel was damaged by someone cleaning it or if this is how it came from the factory but this is really bad, right?

https://photos.app.goo.gl/GzptsBDqrUi1XWSU8

The rifle was sold by the manufacturer but is a 'demo' model. Lucky with full warranty.

Thx
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Here's a x4mag photo of a CZ457 24" barrel for comparison.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/2DykJyHJxrAzLUrY8

I was taking photos of this other rifle before sending it back to the manufacturer.
It was a fluke I saw the bore like that with just the right lighting.

I dont want to slag the brand before giving them a chance to fix it but this bore is a fourth issue on top of other deal-breakers defects.
I'm sceptical a replacement product won't have the same defects.
 
OP, That looks like cra- ! Here's my $400 Sav B22 that I was worried about when I bought it. This is "Faint striations" on button rifling. Still shoots ca 1/2 - 3/4" @ 50. My CZ455 is just shiny w/o marks.
PS - You should get a borescope for better pics.
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I have a Savage hog hunter in .223 that has similar markings in the barrel. Marks are from the button being driven through by a high speed impact I think. The spacing of the marks changes gradually from one end to another for some reason like the button got looser or the impact lessened. Found this when I got one of the cheap boroscopes (great scope by the way). This Savage shoots just over an inch. I compared this to another Savage 110 in 22-250 with an Anschutz barrel built by Elwood Epps in 1967 and there is no comparison, it looks as smooth as polished marble. The 110 shoots sub .5”
 
maybe fire lapping might help a little ..... but i doubt it .

if i was buying that rifle i would automatically figure in the cost of rebarreling , if it was a online purchase and i didn't know about this , it would be returned immediately .

i would expect it to foul like crazy
 
Pushtone said:
I just sent this obscenely expensive rifle with a carbon barrel back for a few reasons. This is one of them. Does this look normal? What are those striations? I don't know if this barrel was damaged by someone cleaning it or if this is how it came from the factory but this is really bad, right?

https://photos.app.goo.gl/GzptsBDqrUi1XWSU8

The rifle was sold by the manufacturer but is a 'demo' model. Lucky with full warranty.

Thx
D
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Those striations, are the feed rate of the gun drill that drilled that barrel blank. Like as not, it was either dull, or carrying a chip, welded to the corner of it's cutting edge, to make as obvious a pattern as that.

If it shoots like a house on fire, keep it, otherwise, get a new one, or your money back.
 
FYI, just sent my borescope down my new 457 and did not see any circular grooves like that. The only place that there was any sort or roughness was where the reamer cut the leade angle in the chamber. If this were a custom barrel job, that would be lapped out by a person who knows about rimfires.

Expensive rifle or not, as was said a bad drilling job. Button had nothing to do with it. Surprised of it is a aftermarket custom rifle, if they make there own barrels that they would let that out the door as was said.
 
Looks eerily similar to a Savage model 12 in 6br that I sent back to their factory 3 times (I think mine was worse though) Never did get decent service from them, and over 16 months of hassles. They finally sent me one with a great barrel but the chamber had two big burrs and would not feed a round. So I polished the chamber when they basically told me to go pound sand. The rifle shoots exceptionally well NOW but I will never buy a "Quality high end" rifle from Savage EVER again.
 
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