Ok, so I haven’t put a finish on the barrel yet but I’ve got the bore cleaned up decent besides the pitting near the muzzle, also got the action tightened up with new grease and hit it assembled into the original stock then outfitted it with a Bushnell scope I have that I know is true, went to the range with it yesterday loaded it up with 70 grains of bh209 Hornady 200grain sst packaged sabots and Winchester W209 primer. Took a few shots to get any kind of pattern going but at 50 yards I was on paper. Groups were terrible so I gradually upped the charge ended up going up to 95 grains. Still the best groups I had was only 4” at 50 yards! Not something I’m really ok with. So today I’m going to swap breech plugs with a new one. Also going to take another scope with me just to be safe, hopefully I can get some better results so I can feel more comfortable about continuing the build. Btw I tried to to shoot different groups with dirty bore vs cleaning it each shot and had no effect on tightening up the group actually the dirty bore shot better at just under 4” with 85 grains of powder
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