Barrel wear or a manufacturing problem?

adamthegrayt

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After turning 40, I decided that instead of a Corvette, I would build my dream bolt gun. No holds bar, I wanted the best money could buy but alas, I have had nothing but troubles with accuracy.

300PRC

x-caliber carbon bull barrel- 1:8 twist 5R 26" with the cryo treatment. This was a blank that I had a local (reputable) gunsmith fit and chamber for me.
Shooting Hornady 225 ELDM and its a 3-5 moa gun. I reload and made a hand load but it only gets slightly better.

I understand a sub moa gun in a 2 moa shooters hands will not get sub moa results.

I also understand that its a game of variables and that if something in the system is wrong (ie contact with the barrel to chassis) it will not have good results.

I have completely exhausted everything I can think of from shooting technique (if I didn;t have another gun- 6.5 prc that shoots amazing- I would doubt my ability to shoot) to ammo to the rest of the gun. I have a barrel cooler (motorized fan) that I let cool the barrel down.

I finally got a bore scope and was pretty amazed at how poorly my throat looked. Does this look like normal throat wear? Or is this a possible manufacturing issue? Or a gunsmithing issue? There is about 450 rounds down the barrel and like I said, I didnt abuse it with excessive heat or hot loads. The gun has never shot well. Below is a image of the throat of the 300 prc. I will also include an image of the throat of my proof 6.5 prc barrel with 120 rounds down it for comparison. Thanks for the help.
 

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The throat looks about the same all the way around. If it was cut non concentric to the bore- I would assume that one side of the throat would look different to the other side.

Im going to take the barrel off the action and test it for runout.

Any other comments/ opinions are appreciated
 
More rifle specs:

Nightforce 7-35 ATACR
Area419 match rings
Defiance Tenacity Action
TriggerTech Diamond Trigger
MDT Chassis and bipod
X-Caliber .30 cal barrel 1:8 5R 26" Heavy contour with their cryo treatment
Chambered by Trevor at Cold Barrel Precision in Medford, Oregon
CGS Hyperion Suppressor on their taper mount muzzle device.

Getting around 2830fps using a garmin chrono. This is from factory Hornady 225gr eldm. I also loaded 225gr Hornady in Hornady cases with 77gr of H1000- CCI magnim primers- with what I thought was about 0.020" of jump to the lands with the same velocity of 2830 fps.
 

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The throat looks about the same all the way around. If it was cut non concentric to the bore- I would assume that one side of the throat would look different to the other side.

Im going to take the barrel off the action and test it for runout.

Any other comments/ opinions are appreciated
Yes, it would. Between the shadows, glares, wear points and converging lines something looked off.
 
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