Savage 110 rifling

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aletheuo

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Hey all - forgive a stupid question here...

I am looking at a used savage 110 (at least 20 years old - serial starts with F but I have no other details) in 7mm Remington Magnum. I haven't shot the gun and the guy selling it is clearly just Joe Hunter - the gun probably hasn't seen 100 rounds in 10 years.

Anyways - staring down the bore from the muzzle I can see that the bore is pretty shiney and clean (not unusually so, but still pretty good) but I haven't seen much rifling but for a few guns so I am wondering... There was clearly rifling in the bore but it certainly didn't jump away from the bore, couldn't really see lands and grooves at the muzzle like I can in my enfield. Seems the same all the way to the chamber but hard to tell. Is it possible this thing is shot out? Or is the rifling like this on the older savages? Could it be leaded? Somehow I doubt this guy was shooting cast thru it, though. History is that he's had it for about 10 years - before that, who knows... but do people really shoot a 7mag savage 110 enough to shoot out a barrel? Doesn't seem to me to be possible but then again I'm pretty new at this. Oh, and the guy's not a reloader so it's just been factory ammo.
 
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"...to shoot out a barrel?..." Not likely. It could be anything from just being very dirty to worn out from 10 years of very hot loads. Most likely dirty.
 
Well then... that's done. Decided to buy it even if the barrel was shot out since they are so easy to change out on the 110's. No problems to speak of. Turns out it likes superx 150's - it's not so happy with the powershok 175's so I guess there'll be some load development going on in the near future... just need dies so now it's onto scouring EE :)
 
Glad it worked out for you.

Did you give it a good cleaning or just shoot as is?? If he was just a Joe Hunter he probably just did a single pass with a generic cleaner if even that.

Being a 7mm Mag it would be expensive to shoot out a barrel seeing that he did not reload. I bet after a few hours cleaning with good copper and carbon removers it will look a whole lot better.
 
Yeah - as is, no cleaning yet. Actually forgot to bring the cleaning stuff to the range and it ended up that the chamber was full of rusty coloured oil - at least that's what was on the outside of the first few brass when it was ejected. Concerned me on the first one but shoots just fine. Yeah, I've got work to do now. :)
 
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