Mossberg PATRIOT Disaster

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I bought a Mossberg Patriot from an Ontario dealer on black Friday last fall. Upon opening and first inspection I found it has a defective and dangerous trigger. Mossber had me send back to Wolverine Supply and the replaced it under warranty.
I just got it back last week and thought I'd run my new borescope through it. HOLY CRAP!!
It literally looks like it was picked off a reject pile in 1885. The galling from the button rifling and the chatter marks are unbelievable. Dozens of large imperfections.
I took pictures and sent the to Mossberg and their reply was. I PASSED INSPECTION, IT WILL BE1709909248409.jpg1709909221504.jpg SAFE TO SHOOT.1709909199596.jpg1709908853833.jpg91710281306119.jpg
 

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saskdude99 said:
I bought a Mossberg Patriot from an Ontario dealer on black Friday last fall. Upon opening and first inspection I found it has a defective and dangerous trigger. Mossber had me send back to Wolverine Supply and the replaced it under warranty.
I just got it back last week and thought I'd run my new borescope through it. HOLY CRAP!!
It literally looks like it was picked off a reject pile in 1885. The galling from the button rifling and the chatter marks are unbelievable. Dozens of large imperfections.
I took pictures and sent the to Mossberg and their reply was. I PASSED INSPECTION, IT WILL BE SAFE TO SHOOT.
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Looks like the beginnings of another thread of the https://rokslide.com/forums/threads/fierce-firearms-disaster.293232/ variety.

That chatter is just insane. I can't see even full copper bullets smoothing that over in any reasonable time, and that's provided it doesn't hand-grenade the first time out.

The galling is best left uncommented. Looks like they drove the rifling button at double the speed it needs to move at, or they just did the roughing pass and didn't do the finishing passes.
 
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What would you expect from a budget gun? a hand lapped bore. Shot it and see, lots of horrible looking bores are more than functional.
 
There is a reason Mossberg is known for their shotguns not rifles....

Sounds like all you can do is see how she shoots now though...
 
How does it shoot? You now know that borescopes cause more problems than they solve, if you hadn’t seen things under a microscope and it shot great you would be happy as a clam. Shoot it, if it’s accurate then be happy.
 
The machining marks are normal, you won't get better than that in a button rifled savage. The holes are ugly and can't be good but how bad are they? It's a cheap gun if it shoots good be happy
 
porpoise said:
The machining marks are normal, you won't get better than that in a button rifled savage. The holes are ugly and can't be good but how bad are they? It's a cheap gun if it shoots good be happy
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that used to be the case in the distant past
my last 2 Savages have great bores
 
Mossberg needs to stick to the shotgun market, I owned 2 mossberg patriot rifles, sold both, never again. My mossberg 500 is a champ.
 
Raton57 said:
These bore scopes make everyone a rifle bore inspector. Somebody needs to take pictures of a high end barrel and see the imperfections in them too.
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My thought as well.

It's one thing to say a barrel looks awful. It's another thing to understand what is considered normal in that kind of barrel. Maybe, that is better than average? Maybe it's worse? None of us know the answer to that.

Borescopes must be a constant annoyance to rifle manufacturers due to complaints from people who don't know any better.
 
This is why I will look for a used HVA instead. More quality for less. Pre owned... so what.

These are about the only source of economical quality.
 
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