pitted bore and accuracy.

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I have an old milsurp which has a pitted bore throughout. How much does the pitting affect the accuracy of the rifle? Rifling is still strong and rest of rifle is in great shape.

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I have had varied experience with pitted bores. My Braz. Mauser keyholed but kept on the paper and my 96 Swede was fine after I put some rouge on a couple of rounds it helped improve the accuracy. Cheers, Dave
 
As the two gentlemen above stated, depends on the individual rifle, I have a sporter P14 that is very accurate with handloads, but has a terrible bore, pitted puts it mildly. The main problem with pitted bores is that most of them foul very quickly and accuracy suffers sooner than later. bearhunter
 
dafydd said:
I have had varied experience with pitted bores. My Braz. Mauser keyholed but kept on the paper and my 96 Swede was fine after I put some rouge on a couple of rounds it helped improve the accuracy. Cheers, Dave
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Just curious, what's rouge?
 
I have a Finn Mosin that's pitted to heck, but the rifling is still decent and it shoots quite well.
 
Rouge is a fine grit polish, I think it is 600 grit, but do not quote me on that. It can help take off the high spots in a rough bore. Use very little and then wipe off, or your pressures can go through the roof. Dave
 
I had a Swede with a pitted bore and it would shoot great on the first shot, but if you fired 3 shots in a couple of minutes, accuracy went all to hell. Let 'er cool down, fire another, and it was dead centre again.
 
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