A friend got his Christmas present early

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I have a good friend in my volunteer fire department who put a good question on me at our meeting. He tells me his new 700 Varmint 308 will fire fine but very hard to get fired case to extract. After a few more questions I learn he went hunting in the rain and when he got home wiped his rifle down, put it in gun rack with a loaded round in the chamber.


I told him to bring it down for a looksee and he did. I pulled the bolt and ran my borescope up in the chamber and talk about rust, the front half of the chamber was solid. The throat was just barely pitted so I pulled the barrel and after some measurements I thought I could save it by cutting half the threads off and setting barrel shoulder forward and running a reamer in so I did.



I also explained to him all the problems with leaving a wet loaded rifle in storage etc. He had wiped down the outside but never considered the inside.


I did another looksee with borescope and while the body was cleaned up there was still pitting in the new neck area so I headspaced it on the tight side and we went out and shot it. The pitting in the neck was light enough that the neck did not grip it the fired cases and they came right out and surprisingly did not leave any marks on the exterior of the case necks.


I told him to go home and put the scope back on and see how it shot. He called me and was very happy as it grouped better now than when he got it new. I had put a 308 match chamber in it which paid off for him. He was lucky.
 
Nice work! and it was nice of you to fix your friends rifle for him.
Out here that happens surprisingly often, guys will leave guns behind the seats of their trucks, or in the cases, after getting home from hunting and then wonder why they guns dont work like they should next outing.
 
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