A couple years back I picked up a Savage MkII bolt .22lr at a gunshow. Nothing special to look at, but I grabbed it because the price was more than right...I thought...and the gun was equipped with a section of picatinny rail mounted on the barrel for scout scope use. I figured it would make a good rimfire scout trainer, and it has; I've put roughly 2000 rounds through it so far and it is a shooter. If fed premium quality ammo it will do 1MOA at 100 yards...even with cheap crap ammo (I use it with whatever I can find on sale) it usually shoots 2 or 3 MOA. In other words, I'm not complaining...except...
The pic rail is held on with 4 screws, and one of those damned holes is drilled right through into the bore! It's virtually invisible when eyeballing the bore with the scout mount installed. I recently took the mount off, simply because I wanted to apply some bedding compound between it and the barrel, and that's when I noticed the hole with the light shining through it.
It seems pretty safe to say that this isn't a dangerous condition; if a couple thousand rounds haven't revealed a problem I think I'm in the clear. Any suggestions or comments? Should I do anything to this? Or just keep shooting the crap out of it? I obviously can't sell it, so this is one of the guns I will die with. Cutting the barrel off at the hole is not possible, as it would result in a prohib. I was thinking I would replace the scout mount, put a dab of bedding into the hole before replacing the screw, immediately run a few patches through the bore to remove whatever was squished into it, and then after the compound has begun to solidify shoot a box through to polish out whatever residue might be left behind.
Thoughts?
The pic rail is held on with 4 screws, and one of those damned holes is drilled right through into the bore! It's virtually invisible when eyeballing the bore with the scout mount installed. I recently took the mount off, simply because I wanted to apply some bedding compound between it and the barrel, and that's when I noticed the hole with the light shining through it.
It seems pretty safe to say that this isn't a dangerous condition; if a couple thousand rounds haven't revealed a problem I think I'm in the clear. Any suggestions or comments? Should I do anything to this? Or just keep shooting the crap out of it? I obviously can't sell it, so this is one of the guns I will die with. Cutting the barrel off at the hole is not possible, as it would result in a prohib. I was thinking I would replace the scout mount, put a dab of bedding into the hole before replacing the screw, immediately run a few patches through the bore to remove whatever was squished into it, and then after the compound has begun to solidify shoot a box through to polish out whatever residue might be left behind.
Thoughts?
