I need some opinions from you guys. I can't get this barrel to group at all, everything is about 1.5 inch. I tried handloads, Federal GMM, took the muzzle device off and nothing seemed to change. Then I bore scoped it and found what appears to be a large burr at the gas port. Barrel has 280 rounds through it. What does the Snipershide braintrust think?
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I have an email out to the company. I figured any remnants from drilling the gas port would be gone by now, but it just looks like it's damaging the jacket. I've gone through a couple of WOA barrels and they have always shot good, but I wanted to give this one(Noveske) a couple hundred rounds first.
Ya, I couldn't get it to focus too good. I did shoot my old JM microgroove .357 lever gun today
That's not a burr, that's normal gas port erosion.
This is a burr.
This is normal wear.
If a noveske isn't shooting well right out of the box I'd send it back. It should be MOA or better.
Noveske's 416R SS composition is super hard. With a new Noveske SS barrel, little chunks breaking off at the forward edge of the gas block are not at all uncommon. When that happens, accuracy falls off.
It will smooth out with another 100 rounds and the barrel will shoot fine.
It will smooth out with another 100 rounds and the barrel will shoot fine.
Reached out to them and got a response, sent a follow-up question and now waiting to hear back. I imagine with the holiday it will be next week sometime. I ran some bore tech though it this morning and got a better picture.
