I’ll be sending those photos to manufacture for sure, shot great for first 400ish rounds. Last 200 have been marginal. Not terrible but not like it was. And that definitely wasn’t there before! I could really care less about any firecracking but I use the scope occasionally to see how a barrel is cleaning up. Just never seen anything quite like that! Im shooting this barrel in the mdt hunter match next weekend so im just hoping it holds up for that.