JDinFbg
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A month and a half ago I bought a Teslong borescope to look inside a 94 Winchester I was trying to get to shoot. Having gotten acceptable performance out of that rifle, I decided to use the borescope to peek inside my 1917 Enfield which I could never get to shoot better than 2-3" groups at 100 yards. My Enfield has the original (as far as I know) 5-groove, left-hand twist barrel that had been sporterized and shortened to 22" long before I bought the rifle. I knew the barrel was questionable at best, but I can't figure out what I'm seeing through the borescope. About 4" in from the muzzle there appears to start an annular ring of deposits, and the next several inches of barrel look more like alligator skin than etched pits in the barrel metal. About 16" in from the muzzle the barrel starts to appears somewhat cleaner, although far from pristine. The first picture is an end view from the borescope 4" in from the muzzle (with the side-view mirror removed), and the next picture is with the side-view mirror at the same point. The last picture shows a side view about 16" from the muzzle. The roughness looks more like raised deposit in the bore as opposed to pits in the barrel metal. Can anyone advise as to what I'm seeing through the borescope? Is this baked-on carbon deposits?
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