MacTech
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I was inspecting the muzzle of my '80s vintage 39A close up, and noticed something unusual about the muzzle....
the rifling appears to be slightly "recessed" behind the crown, there is an area with a distinct line at which the rifling just *stops* before it reaches the end of the muzzle, except for one spot near the 7:00 position where it loks like two rifling grooves do extend almost all the way to the crown, but stop just shy of the crown
Even with this anomaly, the rifle shoots dime-size-to-one-hole groups at 25 yards with Remington CBees and CCI Target Shorts on my backyard plinking range, I haven't taken it to my rod and gun club to shoot full power .22's in it yet, so I don't know how it performs at 50Y
first question, is this possibly cleaning rod damage from the original owner?
Second question, assuming it shoots acceptably well at the big range, is this anything to be concerned with, will it get any worse? I clean with both boresnakes and cleaning rods from the breech end, and only clean the bore when accuracy drops off
third question, how easy/difficult is this for a competent gunsmith to fix?
I do like this rifle a *lot*, I like it better than my '09 vintage 39A with the crossbolt safety, rebound hammer, and crappy MarShield finish on the furniture, the '80 model has nicer wood, a noticeably smoother action, and a Williams FP rear peep sight
I'm assuming a competent gunsmith can just remove the damaged section of rifling (it's about 1/16" in from the muzzle crown) and do a light recrown/smoothing job on the muzzle, and it should be a quick and simple repair, and relatively inexpensive?
I'm thinking all that would be needed is to ream/cut/file/whatever they do the 1/16" damaged area away by basically abrading away the damaged portion of the crown and rifling, basically, the crown ends up slightly deeper, am I right?
the rifling appears to be slightly "recessed" behind the crown, there is an area with a distinct line at which the rifling just *stops* before it reaches the end of the muzzle, except for one spot near the 7:00 position where it loks like two rifling grooves do extend almost all the way to the crown, but stop just shy of the crown
Even with this anomaly, the rifle shoots dime-size-to-one-hole groups at 25 yards with Remington CBees and CCI Target Shorts on my backyard plinking range, I haven't taken it to my rod and gun club to shoot full power .22's in it yet, so I don't know how it performs at 50Y
first question, is this possibly cleaning rod damage from the original owner?
Second question, assuming it shoots acceptably well at the big range, is this anything to be concerned with, will it get any worse? I clean with both boresnakes and cleaning rods from the breech end, and only clean the bore when accuracy drops off
third question, how easy/difficult is this for a competent gunsmith to fix?
I do like this rifle a *lot*, I like it better than my '09 vintage 39A with the crossbolt safety, rebound hammer, and crappy MarShield finish on the furniture, the '80 model has nicer wood, a noticeably smoother action, and a Williams FP rear peep sight
I'm assuming a competent gunsmith can just remove the damaged section of rifling (it's about 1/16" in from the muzzle crown) and do a light recrown/smoothing job on the muzzle, and it should be a quick and simple repair, and relatively inexpensive?
I'm thinking all that would be needed is to ream/cut/file/whatever they do the 1/16" damaged area away by basically abrading away the damaged portion of the crown and rifling, basically, the crown ends up slightly deeper, am I right?
