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- Thread starter The ROC
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If the barrel manufacturer has a barrel break in procedure, follow that. Some people do not believe in this and it may not help a factory barrel. However with a match grade barrel it does help and will/may make cleaning easier down the road. Check out the different barrel manufacturers to see what they recommend for break in, pick one and go with it, it won't hurt. Each barrel even made consecutively will be different. One barrel might be good to go after one shoot and clean 3 times, the next barrel may take 1 shot and clean 10 times to break in.
Looks to be in really nice shape. I have two of the $75 Teslong scopes, one is wireless. I got the surprise of my life looking down what I thought was a "nice shiny barrel". Holee, those things definitely show the real truth. Having said that, I realize, after sixty years of shooting, that whatever a barrel looks like to the naked eye, it may or may not shoot good.
I bought the first one because I own a few milsurps, and want to keep an eye on the barrels. Some of the "experts" at gun shows would be silent after looking at the barrels on their own rifles. The scopes are not "toys" or gimmicks.
I bought the first one because I own a few milsurps, and want to keep an eye on the barrels. Some of the "experts" at gun shows would be silent after looking at the barrels on their own rifles. The scopes are not "toys" or gimmicks.
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Looks really good compared to some Savage barrels I've got! Barrels that only shoot 1 to 1.5 MOA vs sub-MOA for the better barrels I've scoped. Interestingly, the better Savages (116, 12 VLP, and 10TR) have decent-looking barrels. Your barrel looks pretty similar to what I've seen in Green Mountain barrel blanks and Faxon AR barrels. A few reamer marks here and there but overall decent. Not the greatest finish in the world but better than most factory barrels from Savage, Remington, and Winchester!
Lol! Spent money on a new toy, and now that you can see what you couldn't before, it worries you.
Shoot the effin thing. See how it performs.
Great tools for checking up on a barrel that's giving you trouble, but without the experiences of looking at dozens to hundreds of barrels, and being able to connect cause and effect, I think the average guy around this place is more liable to end up on a "do not sell to, ever!" list, than to learn anything by owning a bore scope.
Shoot the effin thing. See how it performs.
Great tools for checking up on a barrel that's giving you trouble, but without the experiences of looking at dozens to hundreds of barrels, and being able to connect cause and effect, I think the average guy around this place is more liable to end up on a "do not sell to, ever!" list, than to learn anything by owning a bore scope.
I bought the Vastar from Amazon. It has an attached screen, which is a good thing. My phone is to old to accept the wireless app. Under $80 delivered if you have Prime.
Just go onto the Amazon site and type in Endoscopes in their search function, at the top of the page. About thirty different models pop up.
Be careful when ordering one to make sure the lens probe is small enough in diameter to fit down a 22 cal bore.
Put enough magnification on anything and it can look bad. It's nice to see a perfectly smooth barrel but they are somewhat rare. Surface finish is just one of the factors which can affect performance and probably not the most important. The images from a borescope can be of some value when trying to rectify a fouling problem or for quality control by a manufacturer. Toolmarks exist, to a greater or lesser extent, in all barrels. Borescopes allow people to see them. Some makers do a better job of minimizing toolmarks than others. The marks you see are artifacts of the reaming operation. It is rare when a reamer leaves no trace of its passage through the barrel. In a button rifled barrel, these marks are ironed out, to a certain extent, but they still exist and can be seen; sometime, without magnification.
No, based on my observations, the average guy around here would throw an unholy social media hissy fit, demand a refund, different barrel, etc, and end up in various folks 'blocked numbers' lists, when what they looked at was bog standard, and not all that unusual. Except for that they can now see it clearly.
Soo... Maybe I wasn't actually talking about you... But feel free to keep yer panties all bunched up.
