Cleaning up the leade question….

[hangunnr]

I’ll go ahead and open myself to the seeming requisite to be ridiculed for using a bore scope. Get it out of your system, you’ll feel better…..

Have seen a couple posts about some rather shitty chambers produced by Bergara in the heavy barreled actions. After a couple positive range sessions I went ahead with a good cleaning and decided to have a look at the bore. Other than the slight smear at the edge of the leade the barrel looks good.

Seeing as this chamber *doesn’t engrave* on the rifling when chambering do you think it would hurt to have the leade cleaned up to remove the slight imperfection. This barrel already has shown some sub MOA groups at 50yds in the limited testing I’ve done.

Edit…..
Checked a handful of different brands and it does engrave on a couple but not all….
My apologies…..

 

[ramslammer]

40 years of experience says if it shoots shoot it clean at regular intervals and shoot!

 

[oldrifleman]

Correct! If it ain't broken and shoots good, leave it alone. That is why I don't like Borescope, Not a gunsmith , but I did sleep in a holiday inn once, don't look for trouble. Every barrel has some level of imperfection, most of them won't mess with the bullet, but if you are not experienced you can accidently do something and mess up a great barrel. Yes messing with stuff is fun, but you should learn on junk, a trait I hope to learn someday.

 

[hangunnr]

I agree with both of your thoughts. I’m not one to obsess over less than perfect. I have a couple centerfire barrels that look like hammered dogshit but still shoot very well.
I’d like to give this barrel it’s best chance to shine.