wiscoaster
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Alas, the danger of ordering ammo on a holiday: I got an out-of-stock / no-backorder / cancelled-sale / refunded email from PSA. Project status moved to on-hold.
OK, I'm sorry, not sure what you're doing here. Looking for loose material in the bore? As thoroughly as it's been cleaned, scrubbed and patched I'm confident there's not so much as a speck loose in there. There might easily be some pitting that's too small to be seen with the naked eye, but only repeated cycles of shooting and thorough cleaning are going to deal with that. For that, I need to get the ammo first.Try pushing a patch down the bore very slow, checking for loose spots.
Bulges in the barrel can not be fixed by cleaning. If the bulges are not to bad, the gun may preform better with flat base bullets.Ah, OK, I gotcha. Your explanation makes sense and would account for the behavior. I'll pay real close attention to "feel" next bore cleaning. Next question: would such a bulge be caused by a local buildup that could be remediated by aggressive scrubbing?
100%. I,ve shot some old milsurps to see what the accuracy was like and it was Ok. Then did the soak n scrub routine to get as clean as possible. Some shot like crap. So I adopted doing a routine cleaning to get anything loose out then trying it. If they are in the acceptable accuracy range for the model I leave it alone. Just clean for the shooting I did. I seem to notice this more on the old WW1 models with the real deep rifling. Don't know why.Bulges in the barrel can not be fixed by cleaning. If the bulges are not to bad, the gun may preform better with flat base bullets.
I have found, over the years, that heavy cleaning of a barrel that has some pitting does not help. Most often it hurts the accuracy. Copper fowling tends to fill the pitting.
An undersized bullet diameter will affect consistency, but the PPU bullets are (supposedly) "proper" diameter
Those darn Europeans.
I'm pretty sure the PPU bullets are the proper 0.323 diameter because their bullet catalog matches that diameter with the same weight.
Ha ha!! I've been around message boards and forums since the '80's and I can guarantee you it'll never happen. I'm as much to blame as anyone. So it's best to just live with it, I think. Good luck to you as well.....People need to read the whole thread before commenting. ...
IMO PPU has a rep of not being too particular about their bullet specs. Anything said about what bullet is supposed to be in any given caliber casing is just weighing the probabilities of what's most likely, until it's actually been checked. My calipers aren't good enough to differentiate between the two FMJBT bullets diameters offered by PPU in 198 grains. Worse yet their 8 mm Mauser ammo box specs 196 grains. I just go with what's most likely....the closest match in the catalog. But it's not a certainty. So ... I throw up my hands and wait for some other brand of ammo to try. Meanwhile moving on to some other project........For example, measure the bullet diameter of PPU ... ammo. ....