Rust Equals Bust?

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Hey Team,

Long story short.. My firearms were in inaccessible storage for little over a year. Recently got them back, and excited to get back to the range. Specifically the Savage FCP-K .308win. Naturally I wanted to give them a once over prior to range day. Ran some solvent, brass brush, then swabbed the bore and was surprised to find a disturbing orange colour on the patch. I continued to clean until no more orange residue was showing on the patches. The bore appears to have a shiny/smooth finish, though I would like to track down a borescope for proper inspection.

Without any noticeable damage to the barrel with the naked eye;

1. Is it safe?

2. Can I expect to see a significant decrease in accuracy?

Side note, If anyone in the Brooks, Alberta area has a borescope and would like to help a fellow gun nut out it would be greatly appreciated!

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Cheers,

Menace
 
If it was light enough surface rust that you were able to remove it with patches, and it hasn't left any visible pitting, you're fine. Fire away. Not likely to degrade accuracy.
 
OP - kind of between a rock and hard place - you apparently do not know what the bore looked like in a bore scope, before, but want to use one now? I am still learning on these - rifles that I have that I know shoot very well have bores that look horrendous through the bore scope. I also have a new, never fired Schultz and Larsen target barrel - so have been using the borescope in there to see what "good" probably looks like. But I have never sent a round down that barrel - it "looks good", but I am only assuming that it therefore shoots accurately. I also have a surplus M94 barrel (from Tradex) - new, never installed, never had a round through it - I presume these were standard replacements for the Swede military - not just a "ton" of things that I can see that are different in that milsurp bore, in the bore scope, compared to that S&L barrel - so I have considerable learning about what I am looking at or looking for - still to go.
 
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Scotty454 said:
If it was light enough surface rust that you were able to remove it with patches, and it hasn't left any visible pitting, you're fine. Fire away. Not likely to degrade accuracy.
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That's what I'm hoping for! The rust seemed to clear up after about 8-10 solvent soaked patches. Thanks!
 
Potashminer said:
OP - kind of between a rock and hard place - you apparently do not know what the bore looked like in a bore scope, before, but want to use one now? I am still learning on these - rifles that I have that I know shoot very well have bores that look horrendous through the bore scope. I also have a new, never fired Schultz and Larsen target barrel - so have been using the borescope in there to see what "good" probably looks like. But I have never sent a round down that barrel - it "looks good", but I am only assuming that it therefore shoots accurately. I also have a surplus M94 barrel (from Tradex) - new, never installed, never had a round through it - I presume these were standard replacements for the Swede military - not just a "ton" of things that I can see that are different in that milsurp bore, in the bore scope, compared to that S&L barrel - so I have considerable learning about what I am looking at or looking for - still to go.
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I haven't scoped the bore previously. More so, I want to simply inspect it for any potential damage/corrosion. I have a lightly used rifle and one that's had a couple thousand rounds through it for comparison. I'm also in the learning curve when it comes to the long range rigs. Hope I'm not currently learning from an expensive error.
 
It might be just me, but I found "problems" easy enough to spot in a borescope - gouges in chamber walls, "alligator skin" in a throat and beginning of the rifling, a ding right at the muzzle - when I removed the scope, I actually wondered why I had not previously seen those things by eye - need to learn to "bear down" and look, I guess, because all were actually evident without needing that scope - just needed good light and some concentration. And probably helps to know what "good" looks like, and whether what I am seeing is the same or different...
 
Shooting it will tell you more than a borescope.
If it shoots as well as it did before, don't worry about it.
 
OP - your description kind of "triggered" a thought with me - I have rifles stowed here that for sure have been many years since I cleaned or even looked through their bores. Obviously gotta get me arse in gear and go through them. Maybe will try to find an appropriate grease and some bore mops, and slather some grease in there for the ones that I know are going back to sit where they have been. I don't actually use too many these days - kind of a function of getting old - open a cabinet and start removing stuff - "Oh! Look what I found!!!
 
I think Tiriac is right on the money here. I’m getting too old to remember his name but a well known barrel maker said he pulled a barrel from their “trash bin”, a barrel that was poorly done & they wouldn’t sell so it was trash. He decided to mount it on a varmint rifle to see how poorly it performed. He was amazed at how well it shot, even though they wouldn’t sell it because of the poor machining. Give it a try, you may be surprised at the results.
 
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