Options for a burnt out .243

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So I bought a savage 110 in .243 on the EE, I guess you take your chances. Shot it yesterday, it's all over the place. I will check it all out and try again, but I'm pretty sure it's pooched.
What are my options? 6.5-06 ai reamer?
I know of someone selling an axis barrel in 7-08, that interests me. Will an axis barrel just thread right on there?
 
you can get prefit barrels for a 110. 308, 7-08 would be my choice.
Make sure you don’t have a broken screw in the rings or mounts. Actions screws tight? Ect.
Pretty sure the axis barrel won’t fit, but I have been wrong before.
 
I'm not going to spend a lot of money on this. I had my .270 with me yesterday too, it shot about 1 1/2 moa. Its an old remington 721 with a used SPS barrel that i picked up for $100. I already have several 308 rifles, and 7-08 always appealed to me.
 
A classic cartridge can be an affordable option to rechamber a new takeoff barrel. Magazine coal is a limiting factor. Cartridge taper can be an issue too. An ackley chambering can solve this. Think
243w=6mm rem ai
6.5 credmoor= 6.5x55ai
7mm-08= 7x57ai or 284win
308= 7.5x55 Swiss

I did this a few years ago with a Kimber long action. Had a 6.5x55ai built. Corlanes did the work for me. Cost around $400 plus a used take off barrel. Probably $600-700 total
 
Will give it it's day in court. Thorough cleaning, complete scope base tear down, maybe another scope although the sight scope on there came off a 308 that was shooting 7/8".
Getting tired of people offloading junk on the EE and flat out lieing about it.
 
Lots of things to check before writing off the barrel. First thing would be is to scrub the barrel with a good copper cleaner. Then check and make sure the bedding screws are not bottomed out. Make sure the stock/bedding and action are clean and dry. It could also be that your barrel does not like the ammo that you are shooting. Try a few different brands.
Rechambering to a different caliber might clean up a washed out throat, but it won't make a crappy barrel shoot any better.
 
migrant hunter said:
Getting tired of people offloading junk on the EE and flat out lieing about it.
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Several deals lately as a buyer have been disappointing.

A compound bow arrived without the whisker biscuit, a rifle arrived without the factory iron sights and an 870 stock set arrived without the recoil pad.

All the missing things were pictured in the ad and no mention of not being included.

Retaliation feedbacks are unfortunately a reality of a buyer leaves a negative
 
Get the correct tooling, if you don't already have it, and measure the distance to the lands. If not wildly excessive, try loading close to the lands.

It's a Savage. There isn't a simpler system to rechamber. If you have the ability to run a 6.5-06 reamer into it, you also have the ability to set the bbl back 1/3" and run a 243 Win reamer into it. 🤷‍♂️

Or, hack off an inch or so from the back end, re-thread and chamber for something accurate like 6BR?

A lot of what you can do, is dependent on the twist rate. A 243 with heavy VLD bullets is a very impressive long range caliber. With a slower twist and middleweight Ballistic Tip bullets, it can be an absolutely lethal coyote rifle.
 
A good cleaning and borescope the barrel see if the throat is shot out

Shoot one round wait 2-3 minutes then shoot another round (repeat) you may have been all over the place because the barrel was piping hot.
 
Evanguy said:
did you look at the crown, maybe it was bumped.
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That was one of my initial thoughts too ! Some great advice here already for you. Check all the easy stuff off first, then look at your alternatives.

**I got a rifle real cheap a long time ago that was "done & done" I noticed a big burr on the crown's edge...few brass round head wood screws and some valve lapping compound did wonders to that old Stevens 200 ! Became what it once was again !
 
So I tore it all down, nothing seemed to be loose. Scrubbed it well with two different copper removers over a 3 hr period.
Someone has done a half assed full length bedding job. The laminate stock isn't super rigid so when I was on the sandbags the forend was touching the barrel. I'm going to float it before I shoot it again.
 
A very thorough cleaning is the first thing that's low cost.
Then follow up with
But you should consider that it could just be a bad carbon ring. Any Issues chambering your factory rounds?
There are a ton of vids on utoobe and you can put your own twist on the methods. But a really good cleaning is the cheapest way to make a used gun shoot better.
I personally use JB and Kroil in most cases when doing a deep clean. But I have a bore scope to help me decide what to do before getting the lead ( or copper ) out. Cheers
 
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