Gunsmithing You ever do this, screw up.........

[Rprecision]

Guess I will be setting it back......

Must have had a chip stick at the end, crap!

Sometimes I hate when things don't go well

 

[b6graham]

throw it out lol

 

[Praeger]

Better there than below the shoulder. Still frustrating.

 

[Supersubes]

Scope it before you take it out of the lathe.

 

[Rprecision]

Scope it before you take it out of the lathe.

When your right your right! Serves me right for being in a hurry I guess

 

[FisherT&C]

Shit happens. That's has to be from edge build up. I pull the reamer and check it and remove edge build up gently with a fine diamond hone before going to final depth.

 

[skl1]

Yes I have done it. Using a drill as a roughing reamer and mis-calculating and running it too deep.

 

[MarshallDodge]

I have not but I had it happen on a rifle I had built. The gun shot a .2MOA group but the brass had a bunch of little ridges in it from a messed up reamer that the gunsmith used. He fixed it at no charge.

 

[Wannashootit]

I dunno how everyone else does it, but I shut off the flush system when I get to the point of using feeler gauges for final depth.
Plug the barrel with patches to stem the flow and take a little extra time to inspect reamer/chamber that last bit.

 

[iceng]

As stated above, I've seen pilot drills run too deep and so very similar. It happens. Always triple check before it goes to the customer..