Did I wear out my 308? pics attached
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What made you decide to look at your rifle with a bore scope if the rifle was shooting 1/2 MOA?
It quit grouping well, throwing flyers. Other shooters had same results. Bought bore scope, to find out why. Found stubborn copper fouling couple inches from muzzle. Good cleaning, tightened up. Just wondering on the fire cracking.....
“She”
Idk a gal around who’s taken that many loads and still keeps em tight. Gonna nickname my girlfriend “my little 3oh8” and hope it works out for me too.
Oh you didn’t mention that in the OP. Shoot it until it wont group or these fliers become present all the time. Meanwhile, Id consider ordering a blank sooner rather than later given typical wait times.
Yes I did not explain WHY I was looking. I remedied the poor performance due to copper fouling. But still kinda ugly compared to my other tikkas. I thought the 3 slow 8 lasted 4ever......
All depends on what you run and how hard you hot rod them but 308 SS bbl life is usually good for between 4-8k. Chrome lined bbls last much longer. Sounds like you just need to clean a little more often given the round count on the barrel.
That was my thought as well. I have no idea what my rifle's barrel looks like inside and I don't care--and neither should you.
That fire cracking does not look bad. I mostly stopped using my borescope cause the barrels look so bad on the inside. I have seen worse fire cracking on barrels with low round counts that continued to shoot well for a long time. If they start acting weird I may look to see if a carbon ring has started, but I stopped routinely looking
Agree, there is no reason to use borescopes on rifle barrels because all it does is induce unnecessary stress for the owner.
Bottom line is that if the barrel starts going south (ie random flyers, crappy groups etc), just replace it.
I think an awful lot of shooters seem to think of barrels as permanent fixtures instead of consumables. Really they arent any different than brake pads and rotors on a vehicle.
When the rifling disappears past the throat and reappears a couple inches down the barrel, it's time for a new one.
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