Hello guys. I just got a borescope (Lyman Borecam) and took some pictures of the barrel. The first three pictures are of the muzzle/crown area. The second three are of the middle of the barrel. The rifle is a Remington 700 20" barrel with a suppressor. I been having this rifle for the last two to three years, but an older gentleman had this rifle for approximately fifteen years. Do you guys think it is time for a new barrel?
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How does it shoot? Many a good barrels have been wasted because of someone looked with a borescope.
Bore scope help you assess the condition of a barrel, and tell you a lot about how your cleaning regime is working. But the most important factor as to whether you need a new barrel is really down to how it shoots. The only caveat to that is if you shoot a lot of matches and the barrel looks bad on the bore scope, you probably dont want to risk taking it to a match in case it goes south while you are shooting the match. A friend of mine that shot a lot of matches told me "all a bore scope does is scare you when you look down your barrel". What he meant was the even a good shooting barrel can look pretty ugly once it has a few rounds though it.
Having said all of that, those particular photos dont look good. But you really want to see what the chamber & throat areas look like. From what you posted already, I imagine the chamber end will look even worse.
Having said all of that, those particular photos dont look good. But you really want to see what the chamber & throat areas look like. From what you posted already, I imagine the chamber end will look even worse.
Bore cams are like being hammered at the bar and picking up chicks.
What you see is not always what you get.
Don’t fully trust a picture, does the barrel put out adequately?
What you see is not always what you get.
Don’t fully trust a picture, does the barrel put out adequately?
The funny thing is that for the last year or so, I was shooting under 1 moa with the same ammo, then last week, it opened up to 2 moa. I thought that I was having a bad day, so I had a few of my friends shot just to make sure and they could not do any better. I then switch to a different ammo and I was back to sub moa.
You have no idea how much I appreciated that lol. Like the others have said, let the rounds on target help you make that decision.
Time for a new barrel !!
