Hello Everyone!
Been dropping in and out of the Hide for years, finally decided to join up so I could ask some experts about an issue that’s just bugging me.
Sorry for the chapter, wanted to include the details…
I purchased an Sig Cross in .308 at a lgs for a decent price about a month ago. Love the whole gun, for what it is. Shot it 3-4 days after I got it home.
I shot 3 rounds of Hornady Match 168 factory ammo on it, just to get the scope close, then screwed on my CGS Hyperion and fired 7 more for a total of 10 rounds. It was getting dark so I called it quits. I unscrewed the can, pulled a clean bore snake through it 5 times and pushed an oil patch through. Now here is the rub/goof. I put the Supressor back on and stood it up in the safe, stock down. I had plans on taking out the next weekend. When I pulled the rifle out at the range the next weekend, I unscrewed the suppressor as I was trying a different round (Baffle strike test). I was horrified to see fuzzy rust all inside the muzzle end of this supposedly stainless barrel? I couldn’t believe it. I cleaned the barrel slick and it looks baaaad. I’ve seen since that it’s a bad idea to store a can on a rifle as it can condense and cause this possibly? It was an oiled bore and a stainless barrel though; is this possibly a barrel issue? Is this something I should ask Sig about or is this just my own stupid tax? I store 5 other rifles on and off this way before I got the Cross, and the Cross is the only stainless barrel rifle of the bunch. Willing to hear it’s my fault, but it seems crappy that this $1500 rifle has a “stainless” barrel that did this in one week, while every other rifle treated the same, in the same safe, has been and is fine. I shot it looking like this and it still groups 3/4” at 100 yards with 175 FGMM, so I guess it’s fine for its purpose, I just hate it’s like this. Only barrels I can find to replace are $7-800 and that’s a hard pass; if anyone is upgrading to a carbon barrel and has a factory barrel hit me up. Pictures attached. Beat me up about it, I can take it.
Been dropping in and out of the Hide for years, finally decided to join up so I could ask some experts about an issue that’s just bugging me.
Sorry for the chapter, wanted to include the details…
I purchased an Sig Cross in .308 at a lgs for a decent price about a month ago. Love the whole gun, for what it is. Shot it 3-4 days after I got it home.
I shot 3 rounds of Hornady Match 168 factory ammo on it, just to get the scope close, then screwed on my CGS Hyperion and fired 7 more for a total of 10 rounds. It was getting dark so I called it quits. I unscrewed the can, pulled a clean bore snake through it 5 times and pushed an oil patch through. Now here is the rub/goof. I put the Supressor back on and stood it up in the safe, stock down. I had plans on taking out the next weekend. When I pulled the rifle out at the range the next weekend, I unscrewed the suppressor as I was trying a different round (Baffle strike test). I was horrified to see fuzzy rust all inside the muzzle end of this supposedly stainless barrel? I couldn’t believe it. I cleaned the barrel slick and it looks baaaad. I’ve seen since that it’s a bad idea to store a can on a rifle as it can condense and cause this possibly? It was an oiled bore and a stainless barrel though; is this possibly a barrel issue? Is this something I should ask Sig about or is this just my own stupid tax? I store 5 other rifles on and off this way before I got the Cross, and the Cross is the only stainless barrel rifle of the bunch. Willing to hear it’s my fault, but it seems crappy that this $1500 rifle has a “stainless” barrel that did this in one week, while every other rifle treated the same, in the same safe, has been and is fine. I shot it looking like this and it still groups 3/4” at 100 yards with 175 FGMM, so I guess it’s fine for its purpose, I just hate it’s like this. Only barrels I can find to replace are $7-800 and that’s a hard pass; if anyone is upgrading to a carbon barrel and has a factory barrel hit me up. Pictures attached. Beat me up about it, I can take it.