308 Win wear and tear after 5k rounds

[Petrov]

So 308 discussion got me thinking. I was curious so I decided to take a look at my barrel which is almost at 5K rounds. Been running old sierra 155 palma bullets at 2935fps out of M24 profile barrel.
Pretty good carbon ring, the black steaks are further up the barrel.

 

[Basher]

But how does it shoot? That’s the important part!

 

[Petrov]

went from 0.25 moa to 0.75 moa

 

[alfmoonspace]

Are you seeing your SD and ES open up along with the change of impact?

 

[Petrov]

My SD and ES have gotten a tiny bit worse but i am 99.9% sure it is because my brass had 15+ reloadings and the inside of the necks is scored to heck. Im adding a mandrel as my last reloading step to address that.

 

[alfmoonspace]

Slap a new barrel and grab some new brass

 

[Petrov]

Gonna need to replace the bolt too. Im debating making it a 6.5

 

[spife7980]

Gonna need to replace the bolt too.

Why is that?

 

[Petrov]

Why is that?

The cam surface has worn off the handle, its a factory bolt that was retimed and tig welded back on so replacing it is probably easier.

 

[alfmoonspace]

And what kind of rifle is this?

 

[Petrov]

remington 700

 

[supercorndogs]

The cam surface has worn off the handle, its a factory bolt that was retimed and tig welded back on so replacing it is probably easier.

They can just cut it right off, weld up the cam surface or attach a new handle. You can find a new handle pretty cheap.

 

[Petrov]

They can just cut it right off, weld up the cam surface or attach a new handle. You can find a new handle pretty cheap.

Im debating getting a new bolt any way. I have really bad catering becasue of oversized firing pinhole

 

[gchellin]

Are you getting more than one firing out of your brass?